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A Terry clip (or Terry's clip) is a spring metal clip used to hold a cylindrical object, for example, to secure a bicycle pump onto a bicycle frame. The object to be held is pushed into the clip to secure it, and pulled out to release.
He soon found the interest and demand so great that he needed a major expansion or partner and, on 22 February 1934, entered into a licensing agreement with Herbert Terry and Sons in Redditch. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Terry's manufactured and marketed the lamp, while Carwardine continued to develop the concept, producing a number of other versions and ...
Terry had also registered the trademark 'Joseph Terry's and Sons' in 1876, which would later become incorporated under his chairmanship in 1895 as 'Joseph Terry & Sons Ltd.', three years before his death at the age of 70 in 1898, during an attempt to become Member of Parliament for the City of York constituency in a by-election.
The Midwinter Pottery was founded as W.R. Midwinter by William Robinson Midwinter in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent in 1910 and had become one of England's largest potteries by the late 1930s with more than 700 employees. [1] [2] Production of Midwinter pottery ceased in 1987.
Sauceboat by Enoch Wood & Sons, c. 1840, showing a pass in the Catskill Mountains. In Brooklyn Museum. He began a business in Burslem in 1783 with his cousin Ralph Wood II, as an earthenware manufacturer; the two were the leading pottery modellers of the period. In 1790 he went into partnership with James Caldwell (1759-1838), a local lawyer ...
William Boulton (1825-1900) was an engineer in Burslem, Staffordshire. He was an inventor with many patents and played an important role in the mechanisation of the pottery industry. He was an alderman, Chief Bailiff of Burslem in 1875 and on two occasions Mayor of Burslem (1881 and 1892), and a Justice of the Peace.
Wade Ceramics was established in 1867 in Burslem, England. [5] [6] It originally comprised several different companies founded by various members of the Wade family and was united as Wade Potteries Limited in 1958. The original companies were: Wade & Myatt (later became George Wade & Son, which made industrial ceramics and Wade Whimsies).
Accles and Pollock was a leading British bicycle tubing manufacturer. Many leading bike builders in the UK during the 1930s, 40s and 50s preferred to use their tubesets as they were air hardening, which become stronger when brazed, unlike the manganese based Reynolds tube which is weakened by heating.