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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.
1933 Founded as Muir Machine Tools Ltd[1]
1944 David Brown and Sons acquired Muir Machine Tools of Manchester and moved the machine tool division there
1954 Brown, David, Machine Tools Ltd. Britannia Works, Sherborne Street, Manchester, 3. Machine tools.[2]
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