Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,394 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Walker Horrocks and Co

From Graces Guide

of Birmingham

Lighting plant manufacturers

1909 Patents (three) for the generation and storage of electrical power for house lighting.

1912 Automatic lighting plants, powered by Austin engines of 2 to 28 bhp and specially designed for this purpose, were used by houses, hotels, railway stations etc. [1]

1915 Bought by Austin

1925 The products which had been succesful for Austin since 1915 were hived off into the Austin Electric Co

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Wednesday, Oct 02, 1912