James Webster
From Graces Guide
of Warwick, engineer, of Aluminium Crown Metal Co
c.1880 James Webster who appears to have been the only English manufacturer of aluminium active at the time.
1881 He set up the Aluminium Crown Metal Co at Solihull
1885 The company was reorganised as the Webster Patent Aluminium Crown Metal Co., to work certain subsidiary improvements to the Deville process patented by Webster himself.
1887 He took an interest in Hamilton Castner's new approach to refining aluminium; the Aluminium Co. Ltd was formed to exploit Castner's invention and take over the business of the Crown Metal Co.
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Sources of Information
- Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. By Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell. Edited by John Graham Smith. 1988.