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.

Test File Names

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Abbreviations assigned to magazines' image file names.

In alphabetical Order.

  • A - Autocar
  • AC – Autocar
  • ACar - Autocar
  • Ac – Autocar
  • ACJ Automobile Club Journal
  • AE - Automobile Engineer / Automobile Engineering
  • AFP - Aircraft of the Fighting Powers
  • Ag - Agricultural Chronicle
  • AI – Architecture Illustrated
  • AJ - Automotor Journal
  • AmPh – Amateur Photographer
  • AW - Arthur Woolf, The Cornish Engineer
  • BC - The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges
  • BCCS – Bristol Classic Car Show
  • BIF – British Industries Fair
  • BL - Bassett-Lowke Ltd
  • BOP – Boy’s Own Paper
  • BN – Bicycling News and Motor Review
  • BNAMR - Bicycling News and Motor Review
  • BN – Building News and Engineering Journal
  • BNAl – Brown’s Nautical Almanack
  • BOR - Brookland Official Racecard.
  • BS - British Standard Exporter.
  • Buck – Buck and Hickman, Tools and Supplies.
  • BulmNYo – Bulmers Guide to North Yorkshire.
  • BW – British Waterways
  • Cass - Cassier's Magazine
  • CGA – Country Gentlemans’ Association Annual Price Book
  • CJ – Chambers’s Journal
  • CL – Country Life
  • CM – Commercial Motor
  • CT – Cycle Trader and Motor Cycle and Review / Cycle and Motor Trades Review
  • CTCG – CTC Gazette (Cycling)
  • CV – Commercial Vehicle
  • Cy - Cycling
  • Cyc – Cycling.
  • DirStaff – History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, By William White
  • DMYB – Daily Mail Year Book
  • E - Engineering
  • EC - Engineer in Charge
  • ECC - Edward Cook and Co
  • EE - Electrical Engineering
  • EnV - The Engineer Vol
  • EM – English Mechanics
  • ES - Esquire
  • EW - Everyweek
  • EYB - Engineer's Year Book
  • FAS - Farnborough Air Show
  • G – The Graphic
  • GFire, GBri and GClay - Galleon Claygate Brochure not in SMCL.
  • GH – Good Housekeeping
  • GHK – Good Housekeeping
  • GM - Glover and Main.
  • GSA - Games and Sports in the Army.
  • GTM – Geevor Tin Mine
  • GWR - Great Western Railway Special Centenary
  • HA – Horseless Age
  • HAl – Heaviside’s Almanack
  • HB - House Beautiful
  • HG - House and Garden / Home and Gardens
  • HWC - History of W. Canning and Co
  • ICE - Internal Combustion Engineering
  • ICH – Ironmongers Chronicle and Hardwareman
  • IIJ – Irish Industrial Journal
  • IH - Ideal Home
  • IHX - Ideal Homes Exhibition Catalogue
  • ILN - The Illustrated London News
  • IME - Proceedings of the IMechE
  • IMR – Implement and Machinery Review
  • Ir - Ironmonger, Universal Engineer and Metal Trades Advertiser
  • ISDN – Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
  • JBB - John Bright and Brothers
  • JGL – Journal of Gas Lighting.
  • KBE - Key British Enterprises
  • KD - Kelly's Directory
  • KDBuck - Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire
  • KDBed – Kelly’s Directory of Bedford.
  • KemBish – Kemball, Bishop and Co
  • LAX - Laxton's Price Book.
  • LBE – Levant Beam Engine
  • LC – Light Car and Cyclecar
  • LCar – Light Car and Cyclecar
  • ListCat – Lister Catalogue
  • Loco - Locomotive
  • Lon – London Magazine
  • LS - London Society Magazine
  • M - Mechanics.
  • MA – Motoring Annual (Vol I)
  • MC – Motor Commerce
  • MCT - Motor Cycle Trader
  • MCy - Motor Cycle
  • MCSupp - Motor Cycle Supplement
  • MCyg - Motor Cycling
  • MelMill – Melinsey Mill (Near Truro)
  • MD - Melvilles Directory
  • MF - Motor Field (American).
  • MidRail – The Midland Railway, Williams.
  • Mill – Milling in the UK
  • M - The Motor
  • ME - The Model Engineer.
  • MEE - The Model Engineer and Electrician.
  • MJ - Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer.
  • MO – Morris Owner
  • MotAnn – Motoring Annual (Vol II)
  • MoTr – Motor Trader
  • MRL - Models, Railways and Locomotives
  • MS - Bristols' 'M Shed'.
  • MT – Motor Trader
  • MWYB – Mechanical World Pocket Diary and Year Book.
  • NJ – National Journal (Cycling)
  • Nwa - News of the world Almanac
  • OEF - Old English Fireplaces - Galleon Claygate Brochure not in SMCL.
  • OsbGuide – Osborne’s Guide to the Grand Junction.
  • OurRail1 – Our Railways (Vol I), J. Pendleton.
  • OurRail2 – Our Railways (Vol II), J. Pendleton.
  • PA - Photographic Almanack
  • Pa - Practical Advertising
  • PAW – Practical and Amateur Wireless
  • PD - Plumber and Decorator
  • PE - Practical Engineering
  • PH – Practical Householder
  • Phot – Photography
  • Phot – Photography and Focus
  • Pl - The Plumber
  • POD - Post Office Directory
  • POTD - Post Office Telephone Directory
  • P - Punch
  • PP- Picture Post
  • PR - Practical Engineer, Mechanical Pocket Book and Diary.
  • PU - Power User
  • RA - Royal Agricultural Show Catalogue
  • RAC - Royal Automobile Club Guide and Handbook
  • RASJ - Royal Agricultural Society Journal
  • RER - Radio and Electrical Retailer magazine
  • Rilette - Rilette (Artist)
  • RM - The Railway Magazine
  • RS - Radio Show catalogue
  • RTrev – Richard Trevithick Memorial Book, Dickinson and Titley
  • Ry - Rylands
  • RYB – Rochdale Year Book
  • RW – Road Way
  • S – The Sphere
  • SEBSEC - Steam-Engine Builders of Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire
  • SEP – Saturday Evening Post
  • Sk – The Sketch
  • SMTR – South Molton Tractor Run
  • SMVR – South Molton Vintage Rally
  • SoT - Stockton -on-Tees Illustrated Pamphlet.
  • Str - The Strand
  • Tat – The Tatler
  • TE - Transport Engineer
  • TimHack – Timothy Hackworth and The Locomotive
  • TLSE - Transaction of the Liverpool Society of Engineers
  • TrHanbk – Traders’ Handbook (Dunlop)
  • TPM – Treasure Park Museum, Redruth.
  • VigHod – Vigzol Oil Co Paperwork
  • VLN - Vital to the Life of the Nation (1946 book).
  • W - Work
  • WD - White's Directory
  • Wells – A. G. Wells (Photos)
  • WhAl - Whitaker's Almanack
  • WSE - Wallsend Slipway and Engine.
  • WW – Wireless World
  • WWE - Who's Who in Engineering.
  • WW(SGB) - Westfield Works (Scottish Gas Board).