Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 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.
Holding page for this advert which relates to the "Mercer binder" for canvases rather than Mercer's treated fabric.
In 1904, a Frederick Duncan Mercer of 113 Haverstock Hill patented a method of tensioning belts/aprons used in reaping and harvesting machines; from the drawings included in the patents it seems likely that this was the same Mercer.[1]
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