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 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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United Wire Works

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1951

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1951

of Edina Works, Leith Walk, Edinburgh

  • 1897 The company was registered on 2 December, to take over certain businesses of paper machine wire cloth manufacturers, wire cloth weavers, wire drawers etc. [1]
  • 1914 Wire cloth manufacturers and wire drawers. Specialities: machine wires for paper-making, "Castello" battery screening for gold mining, brass, copper, iron and steel wire cloths, fine wire drawing. Employees 300. [2]

Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book