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 173,093 pages of information and 249,768 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.

Smiths of Stockport

From Graces Guide
July 1938. Federal agent
Sept 1953.

Smiths of Stockport Ltd. of Wellington Road South, Stockport, car and commercial vehicle dealers, later aircraft component makers.

1926 Coach Painters Wanted. G. W. Smith & Co. (1925) Ltd., Stockport.[1]

1936 Motor Cars. G W SMITH & CO LTD, WELLINGTON RD, STOCKPORT, ALSO AT WILMSLOW. Any Make of Car Supplied[2]

1938 "Smiths of Stockport L I M I T ED - DIRECTORS A Norman Brown, A Fitton (Sec), A Binns, H Binns .... business G W Smith & Co (1925) Ltd Stockport" [3] - presumably indicating a change in name of the business.

1939 HILLMAN DEALERS. AUTOMOBILE SPECIALISTS & COACH BUILDERS[4]

1954 Smiths of Stockport, Ltd. Airborne and ground equipment, including repair and overhaul of vehicles for the R.A.F. Directors: A. N. Brown (Managing), H. Smith, F.S.A.A.; J. C. Taylor. Head Office: 205-207, Wellington Road South, Stockport. T.: Stockport 4642-4. T.A.: Smithsov Stockport.[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Evening News 04 June 1926
  2. Stockport Advertiser and Guardian 14 February 1936
  3. Stockport Advertiser and Guardian 16 December 1938
  4. Stockport County Express 27 April 1939
  5. 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries