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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Direct United States Cable Co

From Graces Guide

of Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, E.C.

1873 Incorporated as a Limited Company

1874 The Faraday, the second largest ship in the world, moored off Siemens Brothers works at Chatham to take on board the onshore section of the cable for the company which would be laid from Ireland to Nova Scotia, from where it would be linked to New York[1]

1877 Company reconstituted.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Apr 27, 1874