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.

Hughes Tool Co

From Graces Guide

of Cheapside, London.

1954 Private company. Subsidiary of US parent

1961 Manufacturers of rock drilling tools and oil well equipment. [1]

1984 Merger of Hughes Tool Co with Baker International was approved by US authorities providing Baker sold some of its tricone drill bit business[2], forming Baker Hughes.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times Mar. 16, 1987