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 162,370 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Victory Printing and Folding Machine Manufacturing Co

From Graces Guide
1870. Exhibit at London Science Museum.

1870 George Ashley Wilson solved the problem of integrating the process of cutting and folding a newspaper with the printing operation; the first "Victory" printing and folder machine was installed for the North British Daily Mail and the Glasgow Weekly Mail[1]

A Victory rotary press for newspapers is in the London Science Museum (see photo). This worked until 1966, first with the Liverpool Daily Post (until 1884), and then with the Wigan Observer

1888 The Victory Printing and Folding Machine Manufacturing Co was incorporated[2]

1920 The company was acquired by Lamson Paragon Supply Co[3]

1935 E. G. Nixon, managing director of the Victory-Kidder Printing Machine Co, had invented a completely novel type of printing machine which the company had patented[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Jan. 1, 1935
  2. The Times Jan. 27, 1937
  3. The Times Apr. 15, 1920
  4. The Times Mar. 21, 1935