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 162,238 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.

Automatic and Electric Furnaces

From Graces Guide

1917 Company founded by Messrs Wild and Barfield - the first company in Britain to make industrial electric heat-treatment furnaces, initially relatively small and specialised furnaces for the precision hardening of tools and gauges.

1921 of 281-283, Gray's Inn-road, London, W.C. I[1]

1927 of 173-175, Farringdon-road, London, E.C.I. An arrangement was agreed between the company and Messrs Carlo Brivio of Via Principe Umberto, 25 Milan, for the manufacture and sale of Wild-Barfield electro-magnetic furnaces in Italy.[2]

Associated company: G. W. B. Electric Furnaces

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1921/03/18
  2. The Engineer 1927/05/20