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Tyzack and Holmes of Standard Works, Cavendish Street, Sheffield.
Manufacturers of measuring tapes.
1867 Company established.
1884 Purchased by Alfred Holmes and Percy Tyzack (son of William Jnr. Tyzack) and Maria Pearson. and run by them until 1902.[1]
In the 1930’s Moore and Wright acquired this company and later it was in turn taken over by Neill Tools Ltd. [2]
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