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 162,364 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.

Whitley Motor and Engineering Co

From Graces Guide
February 1903.

of Coventry

Connected to the Hubbard's Motor and Engineering Co

Possibly Whitley Motor Co

1902 Share issue. 'Whitley Motor and Engineering Company, Limited Capital of £500 shares in £1 shares, to carry on the business of manufacturers and dealers in cycles, bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, motorcars. carriages, and vehicles of all kinds and the component parts thereof, metal workers, wire workers, wire drawers, machinists, tyre manufacturers, engineers, boiler makers, and smiths. The subscribers are A. Gravenor, 7, Butts, manufacturer; Mrs. H. Gravenor, 7, Butts ; A. E. Hands, 54, Stockton Road, milk contractor and purveyor; Miss A. B. Gravenor, 7, Butts; Mrs. F. A. Hubbard, 27, St. Nicholas Street, engineer; C. Hubbard, 27, St. Nicholas Street, engineer; H. Ball, 29, Grantham Street, tyre maker. No initial public issue.'[1]

1905 Arthur Lewis Farmer, a director and works manager of the Whitley Motor and Engineering Co.

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Sources of Information

  1. Coventry Herald - Friday 19 September 1902