Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 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.
of Smethwick, Birmingham
Makers of steam engines and machine tools
1894 Patent on expansion gear for motive power engines by Edward Vernon, engineer, Josiah John Guest engineer, both of Alma Works, Smethwick and William Walker, mechanical draughtsman of Smethwick.
1899 Supplied a 10 HP steam engine to Braund and Son, makers of 'Devonia' jam, at Chambercombe [1]
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