Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,988 pages of information and 246,457 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Institute of Metals

From Graces Guide

1908 Formation of the Institute from the initiative of Mr. W. H. Johnson, of the firm of Johnson, Clapham and Morris, to cover all the non-ferrous metals and alloys; Sir William White was its first president but there were questions about the number of groups covering this area of metallurgy and engineering.[1]

1926 - Autumn meeting held at Liege, Belguim (1st-4th September).

1927 - AGM held in the hall of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey;s Gate, Westminster on March 19th and 10th.

1974 Merged with the Iron and Steel Institute to form the Metals Society

1985 The Metals Society was merged with the Materials Science Club and the Institute of Metallurgical Technicians and the Institution of Metallurgists; the name of the joint body was Institute of Metals.

1993 Incorporated in the Institute of Materials





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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1908/06/12
  • [1] IOM3 Institute website