Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 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.
of 54 Long Acre London, makers of lamps and, later, aircraft.
Louis Bleriot developed what would become the first practical automobile headlamp. His business, supplying acetylene lamps initially to 2 French car makers, made him rich, so that he could experiment with building and flying aircraft.
Up to c.1907 Weldhen and Bleriot sold lamps for cars made to Bleriot's design
By 1909 Bleriot Ltd had been formed at the same address; also advertised monoplanes.
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