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    Alfred Herbert Ltd was one of the world's largest machine tool manufacturing businesses. It was at one … See more

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    • The business was founded in 1888 when Alfred Herbert and William Hubbard purchased for £2,375 a small engineering business in Coventry. Herbert & Hubbard initially made boilers and steam engines. The firm, in Roderick Floud's paraphrasing of Herbert, "came into machine tool production by accident when Alfred Herbert secured the agency for a French … See more

    How much money did Alfred Herbert make?
    In 1899 a foundry was built at Edgwick where most of the Company's operations were subsequently based. During the first half of the twentieth century it became one of the largest machine tool manufacturers in the world. By the 1930s Alfred Herbert Limited was making profits around £600,000 (2011: £29,820,000) .
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