Grimshaw and Baxter
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Grimshaw & Baxter of 29 Goswell Road, London
- See also Grimshaw, Baxter and J. J. Elliott
- Clockmakers
- 1879 Described as watch tool makers
- Makers of the 'Improved Equivalents Micrometer', Patent 20028. This was similar to a modern 0 - 1 inch micrometer, but with the addition of a large dial whose internal movement was driven by the thimble. The dial had a number of windows which allowed direct readings of decimal inches, millimetres, SWG, Stubs Wire Gauge, fractional inches, and B.A. tapping sizes. These functions were only available in the range 0 to 0.300 inches.(see illustration)[1]
- Made small hand-operated metal planing machines
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Elementary manual on Applied Mechanics' 9th Edition, by Andrew Jamieson, published by Charles Griffin & Co., 1910