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 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 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.

UNO Co

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UNO gas coffee roaster - image from Science Museum under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; unaltered

of Tower Works, 90 Minories, London, maker of a coffee roasting machine and other appliances.

1906 "... the patent Uno roaster (the first of its kind supplied in London), and a very neat coffee grinder. Both are driven by motors connected with the Borough mains, this being the first ..."[1]

1907 "The Uno Coffee Roaster will enable the grocer, no matter how small his trade, to roast daily the coffee required for consumption"[2]

1924 With Percy Bartrum Benkert, patented "Improvements relating to mills for grinding coffee and the like"; further patents by them in 1925 and 1929.

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Shoreditch Observer 16 June 1906
  2. ↑ Daily News (London) 23 September 1907