On your next indent specify Nettlefold's Screws - advert, c1927
The name of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd was one of the best known in UK engineering and has an immense pedigree tracing its roots back to 1759 and the foundation of the Dowlais Iron Works in Wales. Subsequent mergers of many companies lead to an almost vertically integrated company that made iron and steel and processed it in many forms. The GKN name came from largely Birmingham concerns of Nettlefolds who, in 1902, had joined the Guest, Keen company after it had bought out Dowlais. The GKN company is still in business, albeit divested of most of its 'heavy' engineering side. The Nettlefolds brand for screws and fasteners is also still on the go, a testimony to J H Nettlefold (1823 - 1881), the man who had formed an almost complete monopoly in the UK wood screw business. The advert - as well as extolling 'buy British' - shows a lovely range of different screws, bolts and rivets, each with a very specific task. Some nice lettering tucked away in this advert as well.
On your next indent specify Nettlefold's Screws - advert, c1927
The name of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd was one of the best known in UK engineering and has an immense pedigree tracing its roots back to 1759 and the foundation of the Dowlais Iron Works in Wales. Subsequent mergers of many companies lead to an almost vertically integrated company that made iron and steel and processed it in many forms. The GKN name came from largely Birmingham concerns of Nettlefolds who, in 1902, had joined the Guest, Keen company after it had bought out Dowlais. The GKN company is still in business, albeit divested of most of its 'heavy' engineering side. The Nettlefolds brand for screws and fasteners is also still on the go, a testimony to J H Nettlefold (1823 - 1881), the man who had formed an almost complete monopoly in the UK wood screw business. The advert - as well as extolling 'buy British' - shows a lovely range of different screws, bolts and rivets, each with a very specific task. Some nice lettering tucked away in this advert as well.