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 162,259 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.

Smart and Brown

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1914 Whitakers Red Book

of Spennymoor

  • 1897 Company founded.
  • 1914 Advertisement says of Erith. Same company??
  • 1914 Engineers, Toolmakers and General Machinists. Specialities; paraffin and petrol engines for all purposes, Smart's milling and wheel cutting attachments for the lathe, four-cycle engines and complete marine equipments using paraffin or petrol, engines for stationary purposes (petrol, paraffin or gas), S. and B. Motor Winch. [1]
  • 1936 Private company.
  • 1939 Name changed.
  • 1961 Light manufacturing engineers, producing Hi-Craft fluorescent lighting and control gear. 3,700 employees. [2]

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