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 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 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.

H. D. Jackson and Co

From Graces Guide

of Summit Works, Hospital Street, Walsall.

1866 Company founded.

1919 Private company, as H. D. Jackson Buckle Co.

1934 Name changed to H. D. Jackson and Co.

1961 Manufacturers of pressed and stamped metal goods, wire goods, gravity ball races, slide fasteners, buckles and fittings. 200 employees. [1]

1963 Acquired by the Barton Group.[2]

1963 Commenced the manufacture of zip fasteners under licence from the French company Prestil.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. Birmingham Daily Post - 07 May 1963
  3. The Times, Sep 23, 1963