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.

Mills Munitions

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Mills Munitions Ltd. of 192, Bridge Street West, Birmingham.

1915 William Mills (1856-1932) set up a company in Birmingham, the Mills Munitions Factory, making the Mills Bomb hand grenade (until then, grenades had often proved as deadly to the thrower as to the intended target). This was separate from the Grove Street Works aluminium works - see William Mills (of Birmingham).

1922 Directors: Wm. Mills, J. H. G. Mills. Manufactured Mills' patent bombs, grenades, sportsmen's seats, wind screen cleaners, roller skates and general engineering work.

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