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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Timsons

From Graces Guide

Timson, Bullock and Barber, of Perfecta Works, Bath Road, Kettering, boot machinery manufacturers.

1896 Company founded.

1912 Private company.

1922 Manufactured shoe machinery, rotary printing machinery of special type.

1933 Name changed, presumably to Timsons

1961 Iron founders, manufacturing web-fed rotary printing presses and other machinery. [1]

1963 Agreement with Yarrow and Co for them to manufacture certain sizes of Timsons web feed offset printing presses[2]

2002 Won a Queen's Award for Enterprise[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times, Nov 04, 1963
  3. The Times April 22, 2002