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.

G. R. Turner

From Graces Guide
Nameplate.
1904. 40 ton ballast hopper wagon.
1908.
1911.
December 1929.
1946.

Wagon makers of Langley Mill, near Nottingham.

1863 Company established by George Reynolds Turner

1893 G. R. Turner the founder died

1902 Incorporated as a Limited Company.

1903 The company was registered on 29 January, to acquire the business of engineer, wheel and wagon maker carried on by T. N. Turner, under the style of G. R. Turner. [1]

1914 Colliery Engineers and manufacturers of railway rolling stock, steel-framed bogie stock. Employees 800. [2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book