Alfred Herbert Ltd
Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, Warwickshire. Telephone: 8781. Telegraphic Address: "Lathe, Coventry". (1937) Alfred Herbert Limited were machine tool makers in Coventry. 1866 Alfred Herbert was born, the son of a wealthy landowner. The extent of the Herbert family fortune was considerable. His father, in addition to owning a town house in a salubrious area of Leicester, was the largest landowner in the parish of Whetstone, south of Leicester. Alfred Herbert was educated at Stoneygate Private School , and was destined for University and/or parsonage, until he met up with an old school friend William Hubbard , who worked on a lathe at Joseph Jessop's Engineering Co in Leicester. Herbert was fascinated by what the small lathe produced, so he persuaded his father to let him follow his friend's example. Subsequently he became an apprentice at Jessops. Later he became the manager of Coles and Mathews of The Butts, Coventry, and began producing machinery for the cycle tr...