A. Adams and Co
of 27 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2. Factories: Dalston. Telephone: Gerrard 4931. Cables:"Pyro, Westrand." (1929)
of 53 Wigmore Street, London, W1. Telephone: Welbeck 3215. Cables: "Pyro, Wesdo, London". (1947)
A. Adams and Co was a camera maker based in London. It made a wide range of cameras, from the handsome clam-shell folder Natti to the big wooden Studio Minex. For the average amateur it made the Vesta and the Verto folders, and the Vaido plate cameras. Under the Minex name it offered a series of SLR cameras. The company also made customized cameras. [1]
Pre-WWI: High-class photographic and scientific apparatus.
WWI: Maker of heliographs, clinometers, photographic apparatus. Also experimental wood and metal work. Periscopes. Signalling apparatus. Rheostats.
1929 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Highest class Photographic Apparatus. Inventors, Patentees of Reflex, Folding Plate and Film, Stand and Studio Cameras. Enlargers, Lanterns and Scientific Instruments of all descriptions. On the King's Roll. (Stand No. O.36) [2]
1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Highest Grade Reflex Cameras, Tripod Stands. Amateur and Professional Enlargers, General Photographic Apparatus all Produced by Highly Skilled Craftsmen by hand. Catalogues on Application. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A. 1082) [3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Camerapedia
- ↑ 1929 British Industries Fair p4
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p6