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.

Automatic Furnace Syndicate

From Graces Guide

of 18 Walbrook, near Cannon Hill Station, in London,

1898 W. R. Wood formed the Automatic Furnace Syndicate to sell furnace stoker machines built under some railway arches in East London based on concept imported from USA.

Soon after agreed with the Railway and General Engineering Co of Nottingham to manufacture the product for the syndicate.

1902 the company name was changed to The Underfeed Stoker Company, as more properly describing the product being sold , and manufacturing was shifted to Slough.

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