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 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Bailey Meters and Controls

From Graces Guide
1940.

of Croydon, Surrey, the British arm of an American company.

1916 Ervin George Bailey founded the Bailey Meter Company in Boston, USA, with the invention of the Bailey Boiler Meter

1919 The company moved its headquarters to Cleveland, Ohio

1925 Bailey was purchased by Babcock and Wilcox

1928 "By installing Bailey Meters you will know what your boilers are evaporating. You will check combustion performance, discover faults, and improve ... efficiency. In the Works you can ascertain how much steam each department takes."[1]

1937 Became private company in the UK

1961 Manufacturers of instruments for the measurement of flow, temperature and pressure level, and both electronic and pneumatic automatic control equipment for process and power plant. 650 employees. [2]


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Sources of Information

  1. Western Mail 21 November 1928
  2. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE