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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Hoskins and Sewell

From Graces Guide
1911.
1911.

of Bordesley, Birmingham

1845 Company founded.

1897 Private company.

1914 Manufacturers of bedsteads, bedding, mattresses, tubes and ships' berths. Specialities: metallic bedsteads; make a special feature of "Hoskins" finish for brass bedsteads. [1]

1961 Manufacturers of bedsteads, ships berths, steel and wooden furniture. Makers of Knight brand bedsteads and equipment and Steelite metal furniture. 300 employees. [2]

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