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 162,240 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Tangyes Machine Tool Co

From Graces Guide
Inscription on award winning treadle lathe.
Treadle lathe reading “Prize Medal Paris 1878”.
June 1888. Machine Tools.
1889.
1920. Railway Axle Machinery Equipment. Tangyes
1920. Saddle and Centering Spindle of Facing and Centering Machine.
1920. Left-Hand Head-Stock and Saddle of Centering and Facing Machine.

of Oxford Works, Birmingham (1888)

1877 Company registered, capital £24,300 in £150 shares[1]

This was established by the Tangye family, but was a separate business to Tangyes.

1900 Reconstructed in the form of the Tangye Tool and Electric Co[2] at Oxford Works. Richard Tangye was chairman.


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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Monday 23 July 1877
  2. London Gazette 21 December 1900