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.

F. W. Portass

From Graces Guide
Lathe.
May 1932.
August 1933.
November 1934.
1934. The 'Adept' Lathe.
1938.
28 June 1951 Advert from Model Engineer.

F. W. Portass, 83a Sellers Street, Sheffield.

See also Portass Lathe and Machine Tool Co of Sheffield, who may or may not have been connected.

Makers of machine tools including the cheap model-maker's 'Adept' lathe.

1973 In liquidation[1]

1980 F. W. Portass (Machine Tools) Ltd was in liquidation[2]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The London Gazette 30 August 1973
  2. London Gazette 30 May 1980