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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Charles Willetts, Junior

From Graces Guide
1914.
1938.

Charles Willetts, Junior of Colonial Works, Overend Road, Cradley Heath.

See Charles Willetts (1859-1951)

1897 Company formed as lifting tackle manufacturers.

1920 Employed 250 persons and started producing the New British car

1921-23 10hp model, Possible around 100 built.

1938 Incorporating John Hill and Sons - lifting tackle makers of Stourbridge.

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Sources of Information

  • Powered Vehicles made in the Black Country by Jim Boulton and Harold Parsons. Published 1990. ISBN 0 904015 30 0
  • A-Z of Cars of the 1920s by Nick Baldwin. 1994. ISBN 1 870979 53 2