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Telephone manufacturers

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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 […]

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Tobacco companies

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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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The Rootes Group

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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 […]

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FIAT bus with Øveraasen snowplough - 1926
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Bus Companies

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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 […]

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

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

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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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Nicoltoys logo on a wooden box
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Toy factories

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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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