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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

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  • Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, Weighing Machine Maker, have inadvertently ... THE IRON WORK of a COAL DROP, entirely New, and on the Hartlepool Plan. For ...
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  • 1932 Formation of private Anglo-French company. W. and T. Avery owned ... Industries Fair. Meter Pumps for Petrol and Oil. (Stand Nos. D.613 and ...
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  • Spectris plc is a leading supplier of precision instrumentation and ... selling its electrical insulator and hydraulic actuator businesses. ...
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  • Note: In 1848 the proprietors of Windsor Bridge Iron Works were Dunn ... concentric wrought iron cylinders 6ft 6ins and 9ft diameter, 8 ft high. The ...
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  • 1760 The brothers Richard and William Salter established businesses ... taken over by William&039;s sons, John and George Salter, who also made ...
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  • He was a pioneer of small electric drilling and grinding machines, electric ... the name of Witton Kramer Electric Tool and Hoist Works. The range of ...
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  • pipe with a 3 inch diameter lead core, weighing around 55 long tons per ... by engineers from the Iraq Petroleum Co and the Burmah Oil Co; it was ...
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  • Ammunition and Explosives Aqueducts Asbestos Audio Equipment Automobile Engineers Automobile Garage Automobile Retailer‏ ...
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  • Henry Pooley and Son was the biggest manufacturer of weighing machines ... 1869 Advert. Weighing apparatus. Contractors for railway plant. general ...
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  • Brecknell, Dolman and Rogers, makers of coin-operated machinery. 1928 Brecknell, Willis and Co was separated from Brecknell, Munro ...
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  • activity was the design, manufacture, sale and servicing of a wide range ... with the manufacturing by hand of steelyards and beam scales in a small workshop ...
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  • Analytical chemists, scientific instrument makers and laboratory furnishers ... See Hugh Harper Baird and John Tatlock 1881 Baird set up business in Glasgow ...
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  • tramways, of motorcycles, gear specialists and makers of industrial locomotive ... 1898 Alfred Wiseman established the Electric Tramway Equipment Co ...
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  • of Millwall, London and Newbridge Chain Works, Pontypridd in the use of chain for naval use, and started chain manufacture ...
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  • APPARATUS; FURNACE APPARATUS; GUNS AND EXPLOSIVES; HYDRAULIC APPARATUS; ... Aircraft. Miles Aircraft, Ltd., and G. H. Miles, 360 Aircraft Cabin ...
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  • 1895 of Hick, Hargreaves and Co of Bolton, when he joined the Inst ... and also became an Associate Member of Inst Mech Engineers. ...
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  • , CHAncery 8325/6. Pneumatic dust control equipment. Trade Names: Drymat; Drytex; ... 1881. "Sirocco" propeller and centrifugal fans; "Aeroto ...
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  • Cross 4055/6.— Electric Light Fittings and Lampshades. for the Electrical, Machine Tool, Motor and General Engineering Industries ...
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  • INTERNATIONAL Combustion –The Rise and Fall of a Great Company by Alan Gifford and Ron Blount Early Days Soon after the end of the ...
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  • ” Accidents : How They Happen and How to Prevent Them,” January ... Aerials for Centimetre Wavelengths, by D. W. Fry and F. K. Goward, 692 ...
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