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 162,258 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.

Frederick Mountford

From Graces Guide
February 1911. Taper Pins.
1913. Fremo.
1914. Fremo.
1917.
1918.
Nov 1919.
February 1921.
1923.
1923.
November 1926.
1926.
1936.
Dec 1939.
1943.
1943 April.
1945.
1951. Advert for taper pins, cotters, engineers' keys etc. Fremo brand.
1951.
November 1953.
1960. Advert for headed, plain and woodruff keys.
1961.

of Fremo Works, Moseley Street, Birmingham.

1909 Company founded.

1919 Frederick Mountford (Birmingham) Ltd., of Fremo Works, Lifford, Birmingham.

1922 Private company.

1937 Engineers and manufacturers. [1]

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers

1945 Advert for taper pins, cotters, engineers' keys etc. Fremo brand. [2]

1961 Manufacturers of engineers' keys and taper, parallel and split pins, also stainless steel bolts, nuts, screws and other fastenings. [3]

By 1961 was part of GKN. In conjunction with Ionic Plating Co, a laboratory was set up at Mountfords, GKN Fasteners Corrosion Laboratory, to promote corrosion resistant fasteners[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  2. Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p146
  3. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  4. The Times, May 30, 1961