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 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Luxfer

From Graces Guide
December 1907.

of 16 Hill Street, Finsbury, London, EC2, and of Colwick, Notts (foundry)

See also British Luxfer Prism Syndicate

1898 The British Luxfer Syndicate offered Luxfer prisms for illumination purposes[1]

Early in the 20th century the British Luxfer Syndicate offered an electro-glazing system which was used as fireproof glazing[2]

1933 Messrs Luxfer installed a book conveyor system in the London School of Economics Library, Manchester Reference Library, and the London County Hall Educational Library[3]

1937 Engineers. [4]

1947 Crittall-Luxfer Aluminium Windows Ltd was formed as a private company to acquire the aluminium window interest of Crittall Manufacturing Co and Luxfer Ltd based on the foundry at Colwick and using part of Crittall's Braintree factory[5] [6]

1962 Crittall Manufacturing Co disposed of its interest in Crittall-Luxfer as Luxfer's product range was increasingly different from the rest of the group[7]

By 1973 Luxfer Holdings was an associated company of Alcan Aluminium (UK) Ltd

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Engineer 1898/07/22
  2. ↑ The Times, Dec 09, 1908
  3. ↑ The Times, Sep 20, 1933
  4. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  5. ↑ The Times, Sep 18, 1947
  6. ↑ The Times, Dec 23, 1947
  7. ↑ The Times, Apr 04, 1962