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 167,113 pages of information and 246,751 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.

Paris Singer

From Graces Guide
1900.
1900.

of 165, Manor-st., Clapham, S.W.

Brother to Washington Singer

1896 Paris E. Singer adapted a Dawson engine for a motor car

1898 Company registered. The Dawson Gas Engineering Syndicate, Ltd. was restyled Paris Singer, Ltd., specialists in high-speed direct-coupled gas engines and dynamos.

The firm equipped the Manor Street (Clapham) Electric Station which, though small, was the first public lighting station to be driven by high-speed vertical gas engines with direct-coupled dynamos.

1900 The company was voluntarily wound up[1]

1903 William John Crampton was appointed as Electrical Engineer, under Mr. Paris Singer, for King Edward VII's electrical installation at Sandringham.



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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 24 July 1900