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 164,359 pages of information and 246,083 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Leeds Copper Works

From Graces Guide
1908.

of Pontefract Road, Leeds

1892 or earlier: the copper works was established

1899 The company was registered on 20 May, as the English Electro-Metallurgical Co, and took over from Elmores Trust, the assets of Elmores Patent Copper Depositing Co, Elmores Wire Manufacturing Co, Elmores Foreign and Colonial Patent Copper Depositing Co and Elmores American and Canadian Patent Copper Depositing Co, also owning all the patents, processes and improvements of the Societe Francaise d'Electro Metallurgie, working the Elmore process in France, and of the late Monsieur Secretan for all countries France and Russia. [1]

1902 The English Electro-Metallurgical Co changed its name to Leeds Copper Works[2]

1909 Yorkshire Copper Works established as successor company.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. The Times Apr. 26, 1902