Gabriel, Christopher
Other Business Names:
- Gabriel, Thomas, & Sons
- Meyer, Montague L, Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Finsbury, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Hand inc edge tool production
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Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc
Timber & timber products distribution inc timber merchants
Notes:
Traced origins to Christopher Gabriel, 1746-1809, who set up in business as a planemaker and handtool seller in London in 1770. Business inherited by his sons who gave up planemaking in 1822 to become timber merchants at Lambeth and City Rd trading as Thomas Gabriel & Sons. This business after amalgamations became a public company and was taken over in 1968 by Montague L Meyer Ltd
Publications:
- Christopher Gabriel and the Tool Trade in Eighteenth Century London by Rees, Jane, & Mark Rees
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Gabriel, Thomas, & Sons
- Meyer, Montague L, Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Finsbury, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Hand inc edge tool production
- Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Timber & timber products distribution inc timber merchants
Notes:
Traced origins to Christopher Gabriel, 1746-1809, who set up in business as a planemaker and handtool seller in London in 1770. Business inherited by his sons who gave up planemaking in 1822 to become timber merchants at Lambeth and City Rd trading as Thomas Gabriel & Sons. This business after amalgamations became a public company and was taken over in 1968 by Montague L Meyer LtdPublications:
- Christopher Gabriel and the Tool Trade in Eighteenth Century London by Rees, Jane, & Mark Rees