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 162,259 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.

Wolf Electric Tools

From Graces Guide
Electric drill. Model OK2C.
Electric drill. Model OK2C. (Detail).
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of Hanger Lane, London

1900 Company founded.

1913 Private company formed as S. Wolf and Co. Ltd.

1949 Name changed.

1951 Public company incorporated. Harry Richards was chairman and joint managing director. Geoffrey Max Wolfe was the other MD. G. Richards of Solex Works was the largest shareholder bought out in the process[1]

1961 Manufacturers of portable electric tools for industrial and home use, transport service equipment and electric soldering irons. 1,200 employees. [2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Apr. 2, 1951
  2. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE