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 173,113 pages of information and 249,768 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.

Hardypick

From Graces Guide
2017. Hardypick Wire Cutter, Finch Foundry, Sticklepath, Devon.
2017. Hardypick Wire Cutter, Finch Foundry, Sticklepath, Devon.
2017. Hardypick Wire Cutter, Finch Foundry, Sticklepath, Devon.
Hardypick Powerhammer.
Hardypick Powerhammer.

Hardy's, of Sheffield, makers of high quality garden, mining and other tools

Formerly Hardy Patent Pick Co.

1930 Name changed to Hardypick Ltd, a public company

1960 Laycock Engineering's offers for pref. and ord. shares was unconditional and would remain open for further acceptances.[1]

1961 Manufacturers of mining, railway, plantation and agricultural tools and machinery. 235 employees. [2]

1961 A private company

1967 Birfield Industries was acquired by GKN becoming GKN Birfield Transmissions.[3]

2003 Hardypick Ltd, a subsidiary of Record Holdings, was put into liquidation.

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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Daily Post 24 September 1960
  2. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  3. The Times, 26 January 1968