Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.
1878 Frederick Wicks invented the Wicks Rotary Typecasting Machine
1894 James Marshall Strachan became foreman of the company
1899 The Times entered into a contract with Wicks to supply any quantity of new type every day.
1900 Lucien Alphonse Legros started work with the company; he was subsequently appointed engineer to the company and introduced improved designs and methods of production.
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