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 162,239 pages of information and 244,492 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.

George H. Hughes

From Graces Guide
1882.
1938.

George H. Hughes of St. Stephen's Wheel Works, Aston Manor, Birmingham, 6. Telephone: Aston Cross 1515/18. Telegraphic Address: "Hughes, Birmingham". (1937)

1869 Company established.

Specialised in the manufacture of wheels for prams, hospital equipment and invalid chairs.

1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Wheels, rubber Tyring and Axles for works' trucks, trollies, sack barrows. Portable Machinery Wheel Barrows, Hospital Appliances. Water Barrows. Baby Carriages. Tricycles. dinner Wagons, Street Orderlies, Rickshaws, Toys, etc. (Stand Nos. D.815 and D.714)

1958 Maker of pram and industrial wheels, merged with Wolseley Engineering to become Wolseley Hughes.

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Sources of Information

  • Birmingham’s Industrial Heritage by Ray Shill. Published by Sutton Publishing 2002. ISBN 0-7509-2593-0
  • 1937 British Industries Fair Page 376