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.

J. E. Baylis and Co

From Graces Guide
2014. Part of factory before conversion to apartments.

of Pilton, Barnstaple

See Joseph Edwin Baylis


1866 Listed as 'Sanders and Bylis, tanners, glove and gaiter manufacturers. Shortly after this John Sanders left the company

1869 Samuel Sanders left the company and Baylis became the sole owner. Around this time be bought the machinery from the then closed business of Frederick Maunder

1890 Baylis died and Arthur John Reavell took over

1937 The Pilton glove factory was purchased by Dent, Allcroft and Co

1973 Glove making ceased

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