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 162,254 pages of information and 244,496 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.

Oriental Tube Co

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of Church Lane, West Bromwich

1881 Company established.

1914 Tube manufacturers. Specialities: tubes for bedsteads, cycles and boilers, conduits for electric wiring.[1]

1917 Advert for steel tubes. [2]

1919 Advert for steel tubes. [3]

1921 Acquired by GEC

1937 Steel tube manufacturers. [4]

By 1953 Was a subsidiary company of GEC[5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p99
  3. Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p139
  4. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  5. GEC, its History, Structure and Future by T. W. Heather. 1953
  • AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry