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 174,011 pages of information and 250,208 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.

Kirby's (Engineers)

From Graces Guide

of Pool Street, Walsall.

1957 Kirby's of Walsall, manufacturers of the largest range of Carton, Container and Cardboard Box making machinery in Britain[1]

1970 Kirby's Engineers were acquired by Vickers; Kirby's, a private company, employed about 110 people; they manufactured machinery for corrugated ...[2]

Subsequently known as Kirby Vickers

1974 Agreement to make and market a new American machine which can help to make corrugated cardboard boxes more versatile and to widen their range of applications in competition with wood and other packaging ...[3]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Daily Post 23 January 1957
  2. Nottingham Guardian 06 January 1970
  3. Birmingham Daily Post 21 August 1974