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 173,126 pages of information and 249,769 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.

Thomas Basnett

From Graces Guide

A long established business manufacturing ship's telegraph and other nautical and other instruments for use in ships.

1892 Thomas Bassnett Limited was registered, with capital of £6,000, to acquire the undertaking of an optician and nautical instrument and ship's telegraph maker, carried on at Liverpool by Thomas Bassnett, and to carry on and extend the same in all its branches.[1]

1898 Acquired by Chadburns (Ship) Telegraph Co

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Sources of Information

  1. Financial News 20 February 1892
  • The National Archives BT 31/5256/35787