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.

Barton and Loudon

From Graces Guide

Manufacturers of cycle accessories, of Spon Street, Coventry.[1]

W. H. Barton and W. S. Loudon

1892 Exhibited at the 1892 Stanley Cycle Show

1893 Exhibited at the 1893 National Cycle Show with a gear case [2]

1896 Described as cycle rim manufacturers.

1896 The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd was registered on 6 May, and took over the licences for manufacturing various cycle components which had been granted to the Stafford Manufacturing Co Ltd, Barton and Loudon, and the Westwood Manufacturing Co. [3] [4]

1896 Became the Beeston Tyre Rim Co

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Sources of Information

  1. Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire, 1896
  2. Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England), Saturday, December 2, 1893
  3. The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 11 May 1896
  4. The Times, Monday, May 11, 1896