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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Metal Agencies Co

From Graces Guide
Jan 1947.

Metal Agencies Co of Bristol.

1894 Company founded.

1897 Private company.

1932 Company made public.

1947 Rotahoist patented lifting device (see advert)

1961 Builders' engineers, and plumbers' merchants, wholesale ironmongers, electrical suppliers, erectors, and suppliers of steel scaffolding, also manufacture fireplaces and tubular steel products. 1,100 employees. [1]

1961 Merged with William Dibben and Sons to form United Builders Merchants[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times Apr. 26, 1961