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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.

Henry Williams

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Points and Signals - photographed Sabah 2019. Probably supplied ca.1905 for opening of North Borneo Railway
Points and Signals - photographed Sabah 2019. Probably supplied ca.1905 for opening of North Borneo Railway
Points and Signals - photographed Sabah 2019. Probably supplied ca.1905 for opening of North Borneo Railway
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of Cathcart, Glasgow

of Railway Appliance Works, Darlington.

1885 Established

1905 Private company.[1]

1909 'The employees of Henry Williams Ltd, Railway Appliance Works, Cathcart, Glasgow.'[2]

1913 Patent. L. W. Williams and D. D. Williams, Railway Appliance Works, Darlington. 'Permanent way; securing chairs to sleepers; tie-bars'[3]

1922 Employees: 200. Directors: O. R. Williams, D. D. Williams, Ll. W. Williams, J. Paterson.

1940 Mentioned. Owen R. Williams, Chairman, and D. Denis Williams, managing director of Henry Williams Ltd.[4]

1961 Railway signal and permanent way connection manufacturers. Press, upset and drop forgings. Makers of apparatus for electric signalling and automatic train control and Q-karts. 250 employees. [5]

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Sources of Information

  1. Dundee Courier - Saturday 16 December 1905
  2. Votes for Women - Friday 31 December 1909
  3. Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 18 November 1913
  4. Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Saturday 21 September 1940
  5. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE