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Precision Grinding Ltd.

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Engineering factory in Mill Green Road, off west side of Carshalton Road, south of Mitcham Junction. Listed in the 1954 telephone directory as Tool Gauge Makers.

Possibly the ‘Engineering Works’ on the 1953 OS map:

1953 OS map

Precision Grinding Mill Grn Rd Mitcham

PG Ltd
The Pioneers of
Optical Form Grinding

Invite your enquiries for:

FORM AND PLAIN PLUGS AND RINGS
FLAT AND CIRCULAR FORM TOOLS
TOOLBITS (C68+)
FORM, GAP AND RECEIVER-GAUGES
FORM MILLING- AND GEAR-CUTTERS
FORM DIES and FORM PUNCHES FOR PRESS TOOLS
SPLINE AND GEAR GAUGES
FORM DRAWING DIES
FORM ROLLS
FORM TEMPLATES
HEAT TREATMENT

Also
OPTICAL FINE MEASURING EQUIPMENT

Precision Grinding Ltd
Mill Green Road, Mitcham, Surrey
‘Phone: MITCHAM 3014/6

A subsidiary of George R. Alexander Machinery Ltd., 82-4 … Birmingham
‘Phone : ASTON ????

Ad from 1961:

1961 ad

Text of ad:

PRECISION GRINDING LTD.
have vacancies for

  • RADIAL ARM DRILLER
  • TOOLROOM MILLER
  • SURFACE GRINDER
  • MARKER OUT
  • CAPSTAN SETTER OPERATOR
  • PROGRESS CLERK
  • or PROGRESS CLERK TRAINEE

5-DAY DAY WEEK
WITH OVERTIME
on fine limit Machine Tool, Tool and Gauge and Optical Instrument Production offered to skilled men seeking regular employment.

  • GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS

Canteen, Pension Scheme, and Sick Club facilities

Write, call or phone: MIT. 3014
MILL GREEN ROAD,
MITCHAM JUNCTN, SURREY

Earliest ad found on the British Newspaper Archives is from the Daily Herald – Friday 28 October 1938:

ESTIMATOR required for tool and gauge engineers.
—
Apply Precision Grinding Ltd., Mill Green-road, Mitcham Junction.

Croydon Times – Saturday 10 October 1953

A VACANCY exists the Planning and Estimating Department of a Machine Tool and Small Tool Manufacturing Company in the Mitcham Junction, Surrey, area. Applicant must have served an apprenticeship on this type of work. An interview can be arranged to suit applicants’ convenience.

— Please write Messrs. Precision Grinding Limited, Precision Works, Mill Green Road, Mitcham Junction, Surrey.

On Merton Memories is a photo of foreman Charles Fuller and John Wells who received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 1977.

Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

1939 Home Made Pie Shop blaze at Fair Green

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Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter – Friday 21 April 1939

MITCHAM SHOP BLAZE
MAN RAN TO FIRE STATION IN HIS SOCKS
Family’s Narrow Escape

“The Home-made Pie Shop” on Mitcham Fair Green was burnt out in the early hours of Monday morning. Mr. Bryant, his wife and child, who occupied rooms above, had to rush Into the street partly clad. They had a narrow escape from being cut off by the flames, which blazed up the front of the shop to their bedroom window. A milk roundsman called the Fire Brigade from the point near the Jubilee Clock Tower. They were just leaving the station at five minutes past three when Mr. Bryant rushed in give the alarm. He had run all the way, quarter of a mile or more, his socks. The brigade gave him a lift back to the shop. Chief Officer W. Lawson, who was in charge, entered the shop to make sure no one was left on the premises, which were then well alight. The shop, which was partly matchboarded, was loaded with stock, all of which was destroyed. A good deal of the Bryant family’s furniture was damaged. Mr. H. J. Clarke, the proprietor of the shop, and also of “The Home-made Cake Shop” next door, told The Advertiser that he was awakened by Mr. Bryant. The flames were then leaping up the front of the pie shop. It was a big blaze. There was an exceptionally heavy stock in both shops owing to the war scare. The damage was considerable. The two shops, both small, are at the corner of the Nag’s Head forecourt, opposite the Conservative Club. They are among the older properties on the Fair Green.