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 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 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. T. Boothroyd

From Graces Guide
1921.
H. T. Boothroyd steam engine coupled to Phoenix Dynamo at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge

of Akenside Street, Bootle, Liverpool

1899 Listed as H. T. Boothroyd and Co, Akenside street, Bootle, electrical engineers.[1]

1908 The business was incorporated as H. T. Boothroyd Limited.[2]

1919 A new company was incorporated, H. T. Boothroyd (Port Glasgow) Limited, to take over the business of general electrical contracting in Scotland, and also the installing of electrical equipment on ships.

1922 Listed as Messrs. H. T. Boothroyds, electrical engineers, of Bootle.[3]

1929 In December, the company went into voluntary liquidation.[4]

Generator with Ruston and Hornsby engine. Exhibit at Anson Engine Museum

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Mercury - Wednesday 06 December 1899
  2. The National Archives BT 31/18563/99742
  3. Liverpool Echo - Friday 31 August 1917
  4. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33567/page/93