Salter, Geo, & Co Ltd

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  • Information processing equipment production Business machine production
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Spring production
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Sword, pikes, etc, making
  • Mechanical engineering Weighing machine production

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Established 1760 at Bilston by Richard Salter, d1791, to make springs and spring balances. By 1780 at West Bromwich. Also made bayonets. 1824 known as Geo Salter & Co. Emerged as a leading manufacturer of scales, spring balances and specialist springs. Also made typewriters from 1895, establishing a specialist subsidiary in 1936. c1915 incorporated. Public company 1954

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