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 162,254 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.

Collier-Marr Telephone and Electrical Manufacturing Co

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1892 Prospectus issued. 'The company is formed for the purpose of manufacturing upon improved principles the various instruments and material required for telephonic communication, and with this object to acquire from the Collier Audible Telephone Syndicate Limited the patents and patent rights granted to Messrs. A. T. Collier and Alexander Marr, works in Derby-street. Manchester, including the plant, machinery, stock-in-trade, and effects of the said syndicate.'[1]

1892. Directors: J. W. Maclure, Chairman; S. Chester Thompson, Harry S. Foster; Arthur T. Collier and Alexander Marr; the last two being the patentees.[2]

A Collier-Marr telephone receiver, used by Marconi to receive the first translantic signal in Newfoundland, is on display at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford (see photo). Marconi handed this receiver to his assistant, asking 'Can you hear anything, Mr. Kemp?'

1895 Company wound up.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 13 August 1892
  2. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 17 August 1892
  3. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 09 January 1895