Urmson and Thompson

Urmson & Thompson of Hathershaw Ironworks, Oldham, were engineers and millwrights

Maker of stationary engines.

1860s Company established

1881 Employing 14 men and 5 boys.

1900 '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Neville Beard and the late John Urmson carrying on business as Engineers and Millwrights at Hathershaw in Oldham under the style or firm of Urmson and Thompson was on the 15th day of March 1899 dissolved by the death of the said John Urmson and that the said business has since been carried on by the said Neville Beard under the same style for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the said Partnership. And notice is hereby further given that the said business has now been formed into a Limited Liability Company under the style of Urmson and Thompson Limited whose registered office is situate at Hathershaw aforesaid who will receive and pay all debts due to and owing by the said late firm and the said Neville Beard in respect of the said business down to the present time.— Dated this 23rd day of February 1900. NEVILLE BEARD. AGNES URMSON, sole executrix under the will of the said John Urmson deceased. ANDREW URMSON, Chairman of the Directors and on behalf of the said Company.

1900 'Neville Beard and the late John Urmson, trading as Urmson and Thompson, Hathershaw, Oldham, engineers and millwrights. Dissolved by the death of the said John Urmson. The business has now been formed into a limited liability company, under the style of Urmson and Thompson, Limited.'

1904 'Urmson and Thompson, Hathershaw Ironworks, have secured the order for a pair of engines of 1,400 horse power for the Copster Mill Co'

1906 1600 HP Horizontal cross compound engine for Gorse Mill, Chadderton

1906 1200 HP Horizontal cross compound engine for the Mars Mill Co, Castleton

1922 Steam Engine Makers, Hadfield Street, Ashton Road, Oldham.

Notes

• Name plaque. Exhibit at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry

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