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.

Test File Names

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Abbreviations assigned to magazines' image file names.

In alphabetical Order.


  • A - Autocar
  • AC – Autocar
  • ACar - Autocar
  • Ac – Autocar
  • AI – Architecture Illustrated
  • AmPh – Amateur Photographer
  • AW - Arthur Woolf, The Cornish Engineer
  • BCCS – Bristol Classic Car Show
  • BIF – British Industries Fair
  • BL - Bassett-Lowke Ltd
  • BOP – Boy’s Own Paper
  • BN – Bicycling News and Motor Review
  • BN – Building News and Engineering Journal
  • BNAl – Brown’s Nautical Almanack
  • Buck – Buck and Hickman, Tools and Supplies.
  • BulmNYo – Bulmers Guide to North Yorkshire.
  • BW – British Waterways
  • Cass - Cassier's Magazine
  • CGA – Country Gentlemans’ Association Annual Price Book
  • CJ – Chambers’s Journal
  • CL – Country Life
  • CM – Commercial Motor
  • CT – Cycle Trader and Motor Cycle and Review.
  • CTCG – CTC Gazette (Cycling)
  • CV – Commercial Vehicle
  • Cy - Cycling
  • Cyc – Cycling.
  • DirStaff – History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, By William White
  • DMYB – Daily Mail Year Book
  • E - Engineering
  • EnV - The Engineer Vol
  • EM – English Mechanics
  • EW - Everyweek
  • G – The Graphic
  • GHK – Good Housekeeping
  • GTM – Geevor Tin Mine
  • HA – Horseless Age
  • HAl – Heaviside’s Almanack
  • HB - House Beautiful
  • HG - House and Garden
  • ICH – Ironmongers Chronicle and Hardwareman
  • IIJ – Irish Industrial Journal
  • IH - Ideal Home
  • ILN - The Illustrated London News
  • IMR – Implement and Machinery Review
  • ISDN – Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • JGL – Journal of Gas Lighting.
  • KBE - Key British Enterprises
  • KDBuck - Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire
  • KDBed – Kelly’s Directory of Bedford.
  • KemBish – Kemball, Bishop and Co
  • LBE – Levant Beam Engine
  • LC – Light Car and Cyclecar
  • LCar – Light Car and Cyclecar
  • ListCat – Lister Catalogue
  • Loco - Locomotive
  • Lon – London Magazine
  • MA – Motoring Annual (Vol I)
  • MC – Motor Commerce
  • MCy - Motor Cycle
  • MCyg - Motor Cycling
  • MelMill – Melinsey Mill (Near Truro)
  • MF - Motor Field (American).
  • MidRail – The Midland Railway, Williams.
  • Mill – Milling in the UK
  • M - The Motor
  • MO – Morris Owner
  • MotAnn – Motoring Annual (Vol II)
  • MoTr – Motor Trader
  • MRL - Models, Railways and Locomotives
  • MT – Motor Trader
  • MWYB – Mechanical World Pocket Diary and Year Book.
  • NJ – National Journal (Cycling)
  • Nwa - News of the world Almanac
  • OsbGuide – Osborne’s Guide to the Grand Junction.
  • OurRail1 – Our Railways (Vol I), J. Pendleton.
  • OurRail2 – Our Railways (Vol II), J. Pendleton.
  • PA - Photographic Almanack
  • PAW – Practical and Amateur Wireless
  • PH – Practical Householder
  • Phot – Photography
  • Phot – Photography and Focus
  • POTD - Post Office Telephone Directory
  • P - Punch
  • PP- Picture Post
  • RAC - Royal Automobile Club Guide and Handbook
  • RM - The Railway Magazine
  • RTrev – Richard Trevithick Memorial Book, Dickinson and Titley
  • RYB – Rochdale Year Book
  • RW – Road Way
  • S – The Sphere
  • SEBSEC - Steam-Engine Builders of Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire
  • SEP – Saturday Evening Post
  • Sk – The Sketch
  • SMTR – South Molton Tractor Run
  • SMVR – South Molton Vintage Rally
  • Str - The Strand
  • Tat – The Tatler
  • TimHack – Timothy Hackworth and The Locomotive
  • TrHanbk – Traders’ Handbook (Dunlop)
  • TPM – Treasure Park Museum, Redruth.
  • VigHod – Vigzol Oil Co Paperwork
  • VLN - Vital to the Life of the Nation (1946 book).
  • Wells – A. G. Wells (Photos)
  • WhAl - Whitaker's Almanack
  • WW – Wireless World