Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.
Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works
1846 Founded by William Armstrong, with his friends Cruddas, Lambert, Donkin, and Potter.
The firm commissioned Henry Watson's High Bridge engineering works to construct the cranes
1847 The friends founded a new company W. G. Armstrong and Co to manufacture new hydraulic devices.
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