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 166,992 pages of information and 246,684 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.

Thornton Film Co

From Graces Guide
1900.
June 1901.
July 1901.

Thornton Film Company, photographic film maker, of Altrincham

John Edward Thornton, founder of Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Co developed several other ventures. One was a film making business, Thornton Film Co Ltd., where he gained a patent on a film pack which he called 'Daypack'. Rochester Optical Co became interested in it which resulted in a treaty with Thornton. Kodak took over Rochester Optical Co. in 1903; Thornton received royalties for his patent since that time. He died in 1940.

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