Maurice Halton's
Engineering History Vault
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| L.
Gardner and Sons Limited of Patricroft manufactured
internal combustion engines. Founded in the 1860s, they
have now almost entirely vanished from Lancashire.
Although they are no longer built, thousands of Gardnerdiesel
engines are still in use around the world. Click the logo
to visit my Gardnersite, which has pictures, documents,
audio files, and links to many other sites. |
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| Hick
Hargreaves and Company Limited of Bolton was foundedin
1832. The firm still exists as part of BOC plc. Much
reduced in size, it has recently relocated to a smaller
site in the Bolton area. Boltonlibrary holds a hoard of
poorly catalogued, and un-catalogued, papers which do
little justice to the history of one of the world's
oldest engineering companies. |
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| Thomas
Ryder and Son Limited of Bolton was founded in 1865. They
built high quality machine tools. The firm is no longer
in existence. Bolton library holds a very small, poorly
catalogued and very inadequate archive on this once world
famous firm. Click the logo to visit my Ryder site, which
has pictures, documents, audio files, and links to some
other sites. |
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| Dobson & Barlow Ltd.
of Bolton was foundedin 1790. The firm is no longer in
existence. Bolton library holds a very small, very badly
catalogued and totally inadequate archive on this once
world famous firm |
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| Bradbury
& Company Ltd. of Oldham was
foundedin 1852. The company made a wide range of products
including domestic sewing machines, bicycles, motorcycles
and machine tools. The firm closed down in 1924. Very
little is known about the reasons for its failure. |
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| The Eclipse Machine Co. Ltd.
of Oldham was foundedin 1872. Originally known as
Shepherd, Rothwell & Hough and later trading as the OldhamSewing
Machine Works, Eclipse manufactured sewing machines as
well as knitting machines and bicycles. The company
exhibited their first car at the Manchester Motor Show in
1897. The last Rothwell car was made in 1915, after which
the plant was converted to munitions production.
Following the conflict, the company was either unable or
unwilling to return to peacetime production and the firm
closed in 1919. |
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| John
Musgrave & Sons Limited, founded in 1839, produced
steam engines at the Globe Works on Kay Street, Bolton.
Final closure came in December 1927 when Galloway's
acquired Musgrave's goodwill, designs and drawings. |
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