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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Wallace Farm Implements

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1920.

1918 New private company incorporated to acquire:[1]

and to facilitate the production and sale of the Glasgow Tractor

1919 Negotiated the purchase of the National Projectile Factory at Cardonald

1919 31 December: Acquired by Wallace (Glasgow) Ltd, a new public company, which also acquired the Burt McCollum patents for a single sleeve valve engine.

1920 Maker of the Burt petrol engine (see picture). Also see Glasgow Engine Co

1924 John Wallace and Sons became a private company and held its first annual general meeting[2]

1946 Public offer for sale of all of the shares in John Wallace and Sons[3]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Aug 09, 1920
  2. The Times, Oct 30, 1961
  3. The Times, Mar 29, 1946