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.

Components Tube Co

From Graces Guide

of Bournbrook, Birmingham, tube manufacturers

1897 Cycle Components Manufacturing Co separated its tube making business as a separate company The Components Tube Co Ltd[1] and sold it to E. T. Hooley. The company was subsequently floated[2]. Directors:

The aim was to enable expansion of the business originally that of Hudson and Co which had been acquired by Cycle Components Manufacturing Co in 1894. Mr Charles Sangster, works manager of Cycle Components Manufacturing Co would take a seat on the board of the new company. This was one of the many company flotations promoted by Hooley

1898, 1902 Annual reports in Coventry Archives[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 9 November 1898
  2. The Times, 30 January 1897
  3. National Archives