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.

Houghton Brown Brothers

From Graces Guide

of Kingsbury Iron Works, Kingstown Road, Ball's Pond

  • 1888 Issued catalogue on steam engines, boilers, cranes, winches, mortar mills and wood-working machinery.[1]
  • 1904 The sale of a brickmaker's stock of bricks and plant and machinery at the brickyard occupied by W. F. Cave included a '10-horse-power, double cylinder, portable Engine (by Houghton Brown Bros.), with driving-wheels, belts, and gear complete and in good order' [2]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer of 27th April 1888 p338
  2. Maidenhead Advertiser - Wednesday 7 December 1904
  • British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816