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Precision Grinding Ltd.

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.

Aspen Gardens

Road off west side of Carshalton Road, just south of Mitcham Junction station. This road then turns to the northwest, where houses are built on the west side, and numbered odd from 1 to 31. See aerial view on Bing Maps.

A house called Aspen Cottage was where this road now turns, as seen on this 1910 map. The road is named after this cottage.

1910 OS map

1910 OS map

Occupants of Aspen Cottage in 1901 were Henry Band, 67, his wife Martha, 54, their daughter Ellen, 34, and son Arthur, 25.

1953 OS map

1953 OS map