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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.

J. Harman Hunt

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December 1956

Furniture maker, of High Wycombe, Bucks

1933 John Harman Hunt was established in business (formerly of J. C. Lane)

1953 Called in receivers

1958 Patent - Improvements in or relating to chairs. [1]

1965 "Broadwey upholstered leather suites"

Group included Ellis Productions, Frank Williams, Mines and Putnam (Marlow), and Oakridge Timber.

Bought out by Wake and Dean of Yatton, Somerset.

Factories employed 320

1971 On short time. Workforce 200.

1979 October - a view of the derelict building formerly the furniture factory of J. Harman Hunt Ltd. Junction of Oakridge and Jubilee Road, High Wycombe. [2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Wikipatents
  2. [2] Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs (SWOP)
  • Furniture Makers of High Wycombe [3]