Crewe, Allen & Co. was in business by 1910 operating the Cripplegate Motor Works on Chapel street in the Cripplegate area of London, where they manufactured and serviced electric motors. The partners in the business were Henry Thomas Crewe and Edgar Allen. In 1924 Crewe left the business and Allen continued it alone but still using the "Crewe, Allen & Co. name. The business continued under this name until at least 1968.

Information Sources

• 1910 issue of English Mechanic and World of Science (Volume 90, page 172), lists "Cripplegate Motor Works, 23, Chapel st., E. C."
• 1920 book Armature Winding: A Practical Handbook for Students, Armature Winders, and Engineers in Charge, by Cyril Sylvester has an ad: "Crewe, Allen & Co., Cripplegate Motor Works / Over 30 years experience / 23, Chapel Street, Telephone 6425 Central."
• 1921-12-30 Electricity has an ad: "Cripplegate Motor Works, 23, Chapel Street, London, E. C. 2. / ARMATURE REPAIRS. / Phone Central 6425. Promptitude, economy, efficiency."
• 1924 issue of The London Gazette (Volume 2, page 2092).

  Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership business heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Henry Thomas Crewe and Edgar Allen, carrying on business as General Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, at 23, Chapel-street, Cripplegate, in the city of London, under the style or firm of CREWE, ALLEN & CO., has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four. All debts due to...

• 1924 issue of Electricity: A Practical Trade Journal (Volume 38, page 144).

  Messrs. Crewe, Allen and Co., electrical and mechanical engineers, of 23 and 25, Chapel Street, Cripplegate, London, E C.2, announce that the partnership hitherto existing between Hy. T. Crewe and E. Allen has been dissolved by mutual consent, as from February 29, 1924. Mr. Hy. T. Crewe is withdrawing from the business at that date, and it will be carried on subsequently by Mr. E. Allen, as sole proprietor, under the same title, and he will take over all the liabilities and assets exclusively.

• 1948 issue of The Electrical Journal (Volume 140, page 1206).

  New CompaniesCREWE, ALLEN AND CO., LTD., 7, Epworth Street, City Road, London, E.C.2.-Manufacturers and repairers of and dealers in dynamos, motors, armatures, magnetos, batteries, transformers, etc.

• 1968 issue of Electrical Times (Volume 154, page 41), lists "CREWE, ALLEN & CO. LTD. 51 Scrutton Street, London E.C.2."