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Edwin Showell and Sons

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of Loveday Street, then Stirchley Brass Foundry, Charlotte Road, Birmingham.

  • 1820 As Edwin Showell and Sons, manufactured door springs and architectural brassware.
  • 1902 The company was registered on 12 November, to acquire the business of manufacturers of general brassfoundry and art metal work of the firm of the same name. [1]
  • WWI. Produced 100,000 Enfield oilers for BSA rifles during the Great War (1914-1918).


Sources of Inforamtion

  • [1] British Enfield Oiler Makers
  • [2] Old Copper
  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908