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 167,717 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.

Harper, Phillips and Co

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of Albion Foundry, Great Grimsby

  • 1870 Company established by George Drewery a Blacksmith in Queen Street
  • 1882 Company owned by Alfred Drewery
  • 1892 The name had changed to Drewery and Harper and described as Iron and Brass Founders
  • 1900 Listed as Harper and Co
  • 1903 They are listed as Harper, Phillips and Co'
  • 1900-1914 Designed a steam engine and sold a number
  • 1921 Produced a steam seine
  • Later concentrated on ship work and the casting of propellers
  • Records in North Lincolnshire Archives for Harper, Phillips & Co Ltd, Albion foundry, Grimsby: records 1903-90

Sources of Information

  • Steam Engine Builders of Lincolnshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1955 by Goose and Son