Automatic and Electric Furnaces
1917 Company founded by Messrs Wild and Barfield - the first company in Britain to make industrial electric heat-treatment furnaces, initially relatively small and specialised furnaces for the precision hardening of tools and gauges.
1921 of 281-283, Gray's Inn-road, London, W.C. I[1]
1927 of 173-175, Farringdon-road, London, E.C.I. An arrangement was agreed between the company and Messrs Carlo Brivio of Via Principe Umberto, 25 Milan, for the manufacture and sale of Wild-Barfield electro-magnetic furnaces in Italy.[2]
Associated company: G. W. B. Electric Furnaces