Gledhill Brook Time Recorder Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Lofts of Cambridge
- Gledhill, G H, & Sons Ltd
- Stockall Brook Time Recorders Ltd
- Simplex Time Recorder Co
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Information processing equipment production
Business machine production
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Luxury / consumer goods production
Clock, watch & chronometer making
Notes:
Gledhill business was established in Halifax in 1873 as retail drapers. c1886 diversified into making automatic cash tills for shops, selling first till in 1887, and disposed of drapery business in 1892. 1895 acquired Lofts of Cambridge, cash till makers. 1896 incorporated as G H Gledhill & Sons Ltd. 1912 acquired Stockall Brook Time Recorders Ltd of Huddersfield and formed Gledhill Brook Time Recorders Ltd to carry on the business. Supplied leading retailers such as Marks & Spencer Ltd. Made attendance recorders and marketed master clock systems (manufactured by Gent & Co, Leicester). 1964 Gledhill Brook acquired by Simplex Time Recorder Co of USA
Publications:
- 1886-1936. Fifty years of prestige and progress by Unknown
- Gledhill Brook Time Recorder Co Ltd, England, 1912-1964 by Harrison, Paul
- With the War We Were Not Idle. How science broke the crooked cross by Unknown
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Lofts of Cambridge
- Gledhill, G H, & Sons Ltd
- Stockall Brook Time Recorders Ltd
- Simplex Time Recorder Co
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Information processing equipment production Business machine production
- Luxury / consumer goods production Clock, watch & chronometer making
Notes:
Gledhill business was established in Halifax in 1873 as retail drapers. c1886 diversified into making automatic cash tills for shops, selling first till in 1887, and disposed of drapery business in 1892. 1895 acquired Lofts of Cambridge, cash till makers. 1896 incorporated as G H Gledhill & Sons Ltd. 1912 acquired Stockall Brook Time Recorders Ltd of Huddersfield and formed Gledhill Brook Time Recorders Ltd to carry on the business. Supplied leading retailers such as Marks & Spencer Ltd. Made attendance recorders and marketed master clock systems (manufactured by Gent & Co, Leicester). 1964 Gledhill Brook acquired by Simplex Time Recorder Co of USAPublications:
- 1886-1936. Fifty years of prestige and progress by Unknown
- Gledhill Brook Time Recorder Co Ltd, England, 1912-1964 by Harrison, Paul
- With the War We Were Not Idle. How science broke the crooked cross by Unknown