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Telephone manufacturers

25. March 202224. March 2022 2 Comments

Europe Denmark Kristian Kirks Telefonfabriker Telefon Fabrik Automatic Finland Nokia Before Apple made smartphones a household item by launching their iPhone, it was Nokia that was the baseline cellphone.Unfortunately for Nokia, they weren’t fast enough to make their own competing smartphone. Sweden LM Ericsson Swedish LM Ericsson built millions of telephones, and is probably best […]

La Tropical De Luxe - Lambert & Butler - Imperial Tobacco Company

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Tobacco companies

25. March 202221. April 2022 No Comments

Tobacco has been cultivated and used at least 3000 years, but the industrial revolution, created a great number of tobacco companies, large and small. The oldest evidence of Tobacco plantations have been found in Mexico, and are from before 1000 BC. Denmark C W Obel E. Nobel FDB Cigar- og Tobaksfabrikker N. Tørring Nordisk Tobaks […]

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Telephone Companies

23. March 20224. April 2022 No Comments

As soon as Graham Bell ended his first telephone call, companies began erecting telephone poles, and starting connecting cities, nations and continents with copper wire. Europe Denmark Fyns Kommunale Telefonselskab Kjøbenhavns Telefon Aktieselskab

Central Hotel in Copenhagen, gets a vacuum cleaning by the horsedrawn Danish Vaccum Cleaner company "Dansk Stövsuger Kompagni" - 1904

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Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers

22. February 202222. February 2022 No Comments

The concept of adding suction to a floorsweeper revolutionised the cleaning appliance industry in the second half of the 1800’s. In the beginning these modern wonders were only available for the wealthy, but as the price gradually dropped, they were adopted into more and more households. In the early 1900’s companies toured the towns with […]

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The Rootes Group

29. January 202226. January 2022 No Comments

The Rootes Group started as an automobile dealership in Kent, and was founded by William Rootes in 1913, and by 1924 they were the largest car and lorry distributor in the whole United Kingdom. Acquisitions Roots Group acquired a long list of British automotive brands. Hilmann Motor Car Company Limited Rootes bought the majority of […]

Crosfields Limited - Quix takes the "oh dear" out of washing-up

England

Joseph Crosfield & Sons

25. January 20227. June 2023 No Comments

Joseph Crosfield & Sons Ltd was established in Warrington, England by Joseph Crosfield in 1814. The factory produced Soap, chemicals and candles. Today the company is a part of Unilever

FIAT bus with Øveraasen snowplough - 1926

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Bus Companies

24. January 202221. April 2022 No Comments

Since the invention of the “autobus” there have been bus companies transporting people from one part of a continent to another. Europe Denmark Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab De Bornholmske Jernbaner Københavns Sporveje England The Western and Southern National Omnibus Companies The United States of America Greyhound National City Lines National City Lines ran a series of […]

AEC Regent at the 1935 Commercial Motor Exhibit - Body by Charles H Roe Limited

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Coach builders

18. January 202216. June 2022 1 Comment

Coach builders are a rare bread nowadays, but back in the first half of the 1900s it was far more often to have a vehicle with a coach-built body. Especially vans, lorries and buses were delivered as a chassis, and a coach builder would fit bodywork that was tailored the customers needs. Today coach-builders primarily […]

Deterling Talking Machines challenge comparison in every point from cabinets to tonal results - Deterling Mfg. Co. Inc

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Deterling Manufacturing Co.

11. January 202211. January 2022 No Comments

Deterling Manufacturing Company was established in 1918 in Tipton, Indiana, USA The manufacturing company was lead by Philip A Deterling. In the 1920’s it produced “Talking Machines”, that were mechanical gramophone players, nicely hidden in a wallnut cabinet with space for 78 records. The Talking machines were cranked by hand, unless you could afford the […]

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Toy factories

31. December 20214. April 2022 1 Comment

There has been a long row of toy factories, producing toys for all the children in the world. Some have closed and others have merged into larger companies Europe Denmark BR Legetøj Tekno England Nicoltoys Nicoltoys was a Sussex based company, that made all kinds of toys in the mid 1900s Germany Fisher The company […]

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