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 167,797 pages of information and 247,161 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.

Thorium

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of 16-47 Cross Street, Hatton Garden, London, EC1 Telephone: Holborn 4884-5 (1929)

of 4 Iddesleigh House, Caxton Street, London, SW1

  • 1929 British Industries Fair Advert for Rare Earth Compounds and Metallic Elements used in the Incandescent Mantle Trade. Salts used in the Glass and Textile Industries. Mesothorium Bromide for Medicinal and Scientific use. Thorium**, Cerium, Didymium Nitrates. (Chemicals etc. Section - Stand Nos. K.94 and K.101) [1]
  • 1937 Mesothorium producers. [2]
  • The factory occupied by Thorium Ltd was demolished some time ago, and 10,000 tonnes of contaminated material from the factory had to be dumped at sea.
  • Note:**
    • Thorium is a radioactive metal. [3]


Sources of Information

  1. 1929 British Industries Fair Advert 11; and p167
  2. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  3. [1] Games Monitor - Contamination and Controversy in the Olympic Park