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 167,720 pages of information and 247,131 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.

Western Counties and South Wales Telephone Co

From Graces Guide
Staff Tokens.

of Bristol

1885 Company formed.[1]

1889 Lost a case against the Neath Harbour Commissioners who had removed the company's submerged cable which they had laid across the river Neath[2]

1890 Chairman is Charles Nash.[3]

1892 Acquired by the National Telephone Co[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. Western Daily Press - Saturday 19 December 1885
  2. The Times Mar. 27, 1889
  3. Exeter Flying Post - Saturday 31 May 1890
  4. The Times June 4, 1892