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Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963

West, Harold Ernest Georges

1895 - 1968
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879

Dunham, Jr, Theodore

1897 - 1984
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947
1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903
source; model railway maker

Richards, J P

1902 - 1999
1891-1941, physician; medical researcher, Canadian

Banting, Sir Frederick Grant

1891 - 1941
1898-1931, recording company; gramophone and radio manufacturer, British

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
1890-1939, artist; marine artist; painter; poster artist, British; English

Shoesmith, Kenneth D

1890 - 1939
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn, Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992
active 1898-1968, compressor/engineering product manufacture, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British

Broom and Wade Limited

1898 - 1968
1897-2012, manufacturer of steam turbines, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, British

Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Limited

1897 - 2012

Baring, Rowland Thomas

1877 - 1953

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979

Cantlie, Kenneth

1899 - 1986
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1874-1937, inventor, Italian

Marconi, Guglielmo

1874 - 1937
1884 - c. 1962, manufacturer of ceramics, Longton, England

British Anchor Pottery

1884 - 1962
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
1899-current (2021), inventor; manufacturer of electrical goods, American

Ever Ready Company

1899
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1898- c 1935, film production company, cinematography and photographic equipment manufacturer, Hove, England (latter London)

Williamson Kinematograph Company Limited

1898
1888-current (2010), medical & scientific instrument manufacturer/ supplier, London, British

G H Zeal Limited

1888
1903-current (2021), electronics and communications manufacturer, Berlin

Telefunken

1903

Pledge, Humphrey Thomas

1903 - 1960

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Gresley, Sir Nigel (1876-1941), engineer

1876 - 1941

Silberrad, Oswald John

1878 - 1960

Redrup, Charles Benjamin

1878 - 1961

Verdon-Roe, (Edwin) Alliott

1877 - 1958

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965

Sarkisov, Semion Alexandrovich

1895 - 1971

de Grineau, Bryan

1883 - 1905

Groves, Robert M.

1880 - 1920

Haldane, J.B.S.

1892 - 1961

The Machinery Trust Limited

1893 - 1903

Ereky, Karoly

1878 - 1952

Fleming, Arthur Percy Morris

1881 - 1961