Sir Alfred Samuel Mays-Smith was an English car manufacturer. From 1920 to 1922 he was chairman of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. [1] In the 1922 New Year Honours, Mays-Smith was knighted in recognition for important services to the Disposal and Liquidation Commission. [2]
In 1913 Mays-Smith was a director of Mossay and Co. alongside Alfred Makower, Paul Mossay and A. Berkeley. [3]
Parnall was a British aircraft manufacturer that evolved from a wood-working company before the First World War to a significant designer of military and civil aircraft into the 1940s. It was based in the west of England and was originally known as George Parnall & Co. Ltd.
The Addison Motor Company was an English automobile company based in Liverpool. James Harold Atherton was the sole proprietor and works manager from 1903 until 1918.
The Garrard & Blumfield or Blumfield & Garrard was an English electric car manufacturer from 1894 to 1896. The company is presumed to have been founded by C. R. Garrard and T. W. Blumfield.
Edward Allen Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton,, known as Sir Edward Brotherton, Bt, between 1918 and 1929, was an industrialist in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England and a benefactor to the University of Leeds and other causes. He was also a Conservative Party politician, and sat in the House of Commons between 1902 and 1922.
Andrew Leslie (1818–1894) was a Scottish shipbuilder.
Whessoe is a company based in Darlington and on Teesside in North East England. It was formerly a supplier of chemical, oil and nuclear plant and instrumentation, and today is a manufacturer of low temperature storage.
Alba was a British consumer electronics brand used for budget electronics.
Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson was a 19th-century British railway engineer instrumental in the establishment of the East India Railway in British India.
Hazledine and Company was an ironworks in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England. It was set up about 1792 by three brothers: John Hazledine (1760–1810), Robert Hazledine (1768–1837) and Thomas Hazledine (1771–1842). Sources differ about the partnership - Discover Shropshire claims that the partners were John Hazledine, William Hallen and John Wheeler.
Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG) was a German subsidiary of the American Thomson-Houston Electric Company. The subsidiary was established to represent the parent company's interests in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Turkey. The company was founded in 1882 and existed as an independent company until it was absorbed by the AEG on February 27, 1904.
George Tilghman Richards (1884–1960), usually known as G. Tilghman Richards, was a British aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, and Science Museum, London curator, best known for his work on the Lee-Richards annular aeroplanes.
Crook and Dean of Little Bolton, England, was an engineering company established around 1821. The partners were John Crook and William Dean (c.1798-1840) who should not be confused with the better-known William Dean (1840-1905).
Frank Ayton was an English electrical engineer. He was a pioneer of electric vehicles. He was a founder of the Electrical Vehicle Committee of Great Britain, later the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain. He edited the journal Electric Vehicle.
Alfred Jacques Makower was electrical engineer and community activist. He was head of the Electrical Engineering Department of South-Western Polytechnic.
Paul Alphonse Hubert Mossay was a Belgian electrical engineer involved in the development of electric vehicles.
Mossay and Co. was a company set up by Paul Mossay in 1913 as a consultancy for the development of electric vehicles and other devices. The original directors were Alfred Makower, Alfred Mays-Smith and A. Berkeley, as well as Mossay himself. They had an office at 9 Princes Street, Westminster SW1.
The Acme Motor Co is a defunct manufacturer of motorcycles that operated from premises in Earlsdon, Coventry. The company started manufacturing in 1902. It was taken over by Rex motorcycles sometime before 1920. In 1922 the name of the company was changed to Coventry Acme Motor Co, later that year the company was merged with Rex motorcycles to form Rex-Acme.
Founded in 1838, George Kent Ltd was initially a manufacturer of household gadgets, then a manufacturer of munitions during World War One, and became the largest British manufacturer of instruments for industrial control systems, prior to its acquisition by Brown Boveri in 1974.
Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon, known as Gilkes, is an English hydropower engineering company based in Kendal, Cumbria, founded in 1853.