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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Pitcraft

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of Hoyland, near Barnsley

1971 Company set up by Gerry Penrith

1975 Developed a safer method for moving the shearing machine at a longwall coal face[1]

1977 Queens Award for technology[2]. National Enterprise Board invested and acquired c.20 percent of the company[3]

1978 Sales had expanded by 50 percent in the past year. NEB sold its holding to Booker McConnell[4]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jan 03, 1976
  2. The Times Apr 21, 1977
  3. The Times, Jul 08, 1977
  4. The Times, Jul 10, 1978