Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Oldfield and Schofield

From Graces Guide
1902.
1928. Shaping machine
Oldfield and Schofield Model C lathe.
May 1950.
January 1953.

Oldfield & Schofield of Central Iron Works, Boothtown, Halifax

Machine tool makers.

1957 Taken over by Kerry Machine Tool Group[1]

1962 Kerry's merged the business with that of Henry Broadbent[2] as Broadbent-Schofield[3]

1963 Downturn in demand for heavy machine tools led to the company making a loss.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Oct 21, 1957
  2. [1] Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion
  3. The Times , Jan 23, 1962