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3 unusual facts about Harry Shelvoke


Harry Shelvoke

The name lives on in only three company names connected to Harry's family: the two engineering firms of Accles & Shelvoke, Shelvoke Ltd (Dennis Shelvoke / Dennis Eagle) and Shelvoke Pickering and Janney, a firm of chartered accounts in Cannock, Staffordshire.

As noted elsewhere in Shelvock families, there was a genetic tendency towards more girls than boys that is the root cause to the rareness and then extinction of the family name.

The firm of Accles & Shelvoke was formed in 1913 to commence the manufacture of cartridge-powered captive bolt stunning equipment to become a world leader in humane animal killing.



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