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.

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.

Bennett, Sons and Shears

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of Farringdon Works, Shoe Lane, London, EC

c1814 Company was established by James Shears at Fleet Market and was the continuation of the amalgamated business of James Shears and Sons, Bankside and Bennett and Sons, Kingsland Road. N.

1907 Incorporated as a limited company.

1908 Description of Shears's 'Mulser', a machine for emulsifying oily mixtures, as previously shown at the 1907 Brewers’ Exhibition, at the Agricultural Hall, Islington.[1]

1914 Engineers, coppersmiths, millwrights and brassfounders. Specialities: machinery and utensils for breweries, distilleries, sugar plantations and refineries, stearine candle and soap factories, chemical works and laboratories; manufacturers of pewter worms, backs and vats. [2]

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