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 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.

Walter D. Fair and Co

From Graces Guide
1910. 6hp. Exhibit at Myreton Motor Museum.
1919. Exhibit at Myreton Motor Museum.

of Pembroke Engineering Works, Hampton Wick

1911 Company founded to build marine engines and these were sold under the Watermota name

1913-1917 Importer of Skandia (Swedish) and Waterman (American). For a list of the models and prices of Marine Motors see the 1917 Red Book

1927 The company name changed to Watermota Co

1935 John Rigby and Co (Gunmakers) Ltd (also trading as Walter D. Fair & Co.) was in liquidation[1]

Presumably the company of Walter Desmond Fair (1873-1950) who, in 1939, described himself as Mechanical Engineer, Late Manufacturer of Petrol Marine Engines as Managing Director[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 5 July 1935
  2. 1939 register