Edward Williams Manufacturing Co Ltd

Edward Williams Manufacturing Co Ltd, began operating as machinists and tool makers in Winson Green, Birmingham. The company became best known for the manufacture of patent chain wheels and cranks for bicycles from the 1890s at its Foundry Lane works in Smethwick.

The company is known to have still been in operation in 1969, from an advert describing it as "also specialists in sprockets and gear cutting".