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 162,259 pages of information and 244,501 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.

Wharton Crane and Hoist Co

From Graces Guide
1957.
1960.

of Reddish, Stockport.

1906 Company founded.

1919 Public company.

1926 Name changed.

1961 Manufacturers of electric and hand overhead travelling cranes, electric and hand chain blocks and rope hoists, industrial lifting platforms and automobile lifts. 330 employees. [1]

5-ton crane seen on the Snowdonia Railway (2007)

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