Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,001 pages of information and 245,984 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.
William Robert Sykes (c1840-1917), inventor of the lock-and-block system of railway signalling.
1862 Established his business
1899 W. R. Sykes Interlocking Signal Co was incorporated as a limited company.
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