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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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Mallard Pencil Company Georgetown, Kentucky, USA - 405 No. 2

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Pencil factories

15. December 202120. December 2021 1 Comment

There used to be a lot of small pencil factories, that made pencils in most larger towns. Some quickly closed again, while others found success and grew to large corporations. Denmark Viking Pencil Company Copenhagen England Alpco Pencils London Eagle Pencil Company Produced pencils in Tottenham and Norfolk, from 1907. Pencils Limited London United States […]

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Oil companies

14. December 20219. January 2024 No Comments

Before the combustion engine became a household item, you had to get your gasoline at shops and farmacies. Today Oil Companies are huge multinational companies, with departments and petrol stations world wide. Amoco British Petroleum – BP Buffalo Lubricating Oil Company Was sabotaged by one of the founders of competing company Vacuum Oil Company and […]

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The muffler men

27. September 202127. September 2021 No Comments

The first of the muffler men was a giant Paul Bunyan, with a giant Axe, built for the “Paul Bunyan Café” by Bob Prewitt in 1962. Bob owned the company Prewitt Fiberglass, but sold it a year later to Steve Dashew in 1963, who renamed it “International Fibreglass”. In the next decade thousands of these […]

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