Iron, Steel and Allied Trades, Manchester and District
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1899
- Pages 83pp; illus
- Publisher Robinson & Co
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Short illustrated profiles of c12 leading businesses- mostly either mechanical or electrical engineering ones - including: Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, Openshaw Works; Ashbury Railway Carriage & Iron Co Ltd, Openshaw, railway carriage builders; Crossley Brothers Ltd, Openshaw, makers of gas and oil engines; F H Royce & Co Ltd, Hulme, makers of dynamos, lamps, motor engines, etc; Frank Pearn & Co Ltd, Gorton, hydraulic engineers; Rossendale Belting Co Ltd; B & S Massey, Openshaw, steam hammer builders; George Saxon, Openshaw, engineer and millwright; Vaughan & Son Ltd, West Gorton, electrical engineers; Robert Neill & Sons, construction business; Linotype Co, printers; Samuel Gratrix Jun & Brother Ltd, brass founders, plumbers brasswork, light fittings, etc, essentially a warehouse wholesaling business; Andrew Knowles & Sons Ltd, colliery operators at Pendleton; Edward Wood & Co Ltd, structural steelwork for roofs, etc. For two businesses see individual BHE entries