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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

John Wilder

From Graces Guide
Name plate.
Name plate.
Name plate. Pitch-Pole Cultivator.
1900. Chaff cutter. Exhibit at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL).
1892. Chaff Cutter.
1892. Two-horse Mower.
1900. Chaff cutter. Exhibit at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL).
1937.
1938.
September 1947. Wilder Pitch-Pole.
Pitch-Pole Cultivator.
Pitch-Pole Cultivator (detail).

of Yield Hall Foundry, Minster Street, Reading.

Makers of chaff cutters, oilcake mills and mowers.

1818 Company founded at Wallingford - presumably by James Wilder

Shortly thereafter moved to Yield Hall Foundry, Reading.

James Wilder took his son(s) into partnership at the Yield Hall Foundry.

1870 John Wilder took sole charge of the business.

1896 Displayed his well-known range of chaff-cutters and mowing machines.[1]

1903 John Wilder died.

1938 of Cattle Market, Reading.

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Sources of Information

  • Mechanical Engineer Records