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 162,259 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.

Campion and Johnson

From Graces Guide

Campion and Johnson, of Hoyles' Factory, Woolpack Lane, Nottingham.

1859 Business set up by William Campion and Henry Johnson

1859 Patent #876 granted to William Campion of Nottingham, of the firm W.W. Campion, machine builders[1].

1860 William Campion and William Campion of Nottingham gained patent no.1569 for sewing machines[2].

1864 Newton, Wilson and Co started manufacturing industrial sewing machines at the factory of Campion and Johnson.

By 1864 possible successor: William Campion


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Nottinghamshire Guardian, 12 July 1860
  2. The Repertory of patent inventions: and other discoveries and improvements
  • History of Sewing Machines by David and Lin Best [1]