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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Benham and Sons

From Graces Guide
From 1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue
December 1907.
1921.
1921.
February 1937. Electru-Vapour and Electrovex radiators.
April 1946. Nevastane.
July 1949.

J. L. Benham and Sons of London

1817 Company founded by John Lee Benham.

1855 Exhibited stoves and grates at the 1855 Paris Exhibition

1891 Incorporated as a Company.

1907 Became private company.

1961 Manufacturers of kitchen and cooking equipment, heating and ventilating apparatus and air conditioning installations. 1,500 employees.[1]

1968 Owned by Thorn Electrical Industries.[2].

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times, 24 September 1968