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Dog Lane, Willesden, London
Makers of the Davis Typecaster, punches and matrices.
1910 Company founded by Lucien Alphonse Legros and John Cameron Grant.
1914 Legros left at the outbreak of war
1915 Purchased by A. E. Lund and H. G. Webb, employees of the firm.
1919 Acquired by the Williams Engineering Co Ltd.
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