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.

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.

G. W. B. Furnaces

From Graces Guide
November 1954.
1958.
1959.

Furnace makers, of Dudley, Worcs

1931 Private company formed. Presumably as G. W. B. Electric Furnaces

1953 Name changed.

1955 Makers of electric furnaces, also small packaged boilers and control instruments. Associate of Gibbons (Dudley)[1]

1961 Manufacturers of industrial electric furnaces, "Powermaster" oil and gas fired packaged boilers; electrical control gear; "Eternite" case hardening compounds. 500 employees.

1966 Acquired by Adwest Group[2].

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times 22 June 1955
  2. The Times 31 May 1966