Clarke, Chapman and Co
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of Victoria Works, Gateshead, were marine and electrical engineers and boilermakers.
- 1864 Company established.
- 1883 Charles Algernon Parsons became a junior partner at Clarke, Chapman and Co, in charge of the new electrical department. Parsons concentrated on efforts to devise a high-speed engine for driving directly the newly introduced electric generators, as well as developing a high speed generator.
- 1884 Parsons produced his steam turbine patent, said to be comparable in importance to that of James Watt in 1769. The first Parsons turbo-generator was completed in 1884 and is now preserved in the London Science Museum; by 1888 about 200 were in service, mainly for lighting on ships.
- 1888 Glasgow exhibition. Showed a duplex-pump windlass, steering gear, winch, capstan, and a small electric generator. Named as Clarke, Chapman Parsons and Company[1].
- Small engine by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons and Co of Gateshead with a generator. Exhibit at Nottingham Industrial Museum.
- 1889 Parsons left the partnership and founded C. A. Parsons and Co at Heaton.
- 1893 Public company.
- 1894 June. Took part in the Royal Agricultural Society’s Competitive Trial of Oil Engines. 6 bhp Butter's patent fixed engine and a portable engine. Article in ‘The Engineer’. [2]
- 1907 Two crane railway tank engines built for the Consett Iron Co.
- 1914 Specialities: All classes of Steam and Electrically Driven Ships' Auxiliary Machinery, Colliery Power Plant, Vertical, Horizontal and Water Tube Boilers. Employees 2500 to 3000. [3]
- 1937 Engineers, electricians, boiler makers and founders. [4]
- 1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
- 1961 Manufacturers of winches, windlasses, capstan gears, pumps, cranes, ships' generators and switchboards, searchlight and floodlight projectors, reflectors, steam generating plant for power station and industrial undertakings, pulverising equipment, conveyors and mechanical handling equipment. Member of the Nuclear Power Group[5].
- 1968 Details of their power plant division at Gateshead. [6]
- 1968? Acquisition of boiler makers Clyde Crane and Booth [7]
- 1969 Take-over of bridge builder and heavy crane maker Sir William Arrol and Co and the 3 heavy-crane making companies in the Wellman Engineering Corporation with backing from the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation[8].
- 1970 Clarke, Chapman and Co took over the Thompson Group with the support of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation; new company called Clarke Chapman-John Thompson. [9].
- 1972 December: Rockwell Standard purchased the Motor Pressings Division of Clarke Chapman-John Thompson[10].
- 1977 Clarke, Chapman and Co merged with Reyrolle Parsons of Newcastle to form a new company, Northern Engineering Industries, which at one stage employed in the region of 35,000.
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- ↑ The Engineer of 11th May 1888 p377
- ↑ The Engineer of 22nd June 1894 p540
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer of 10th May 1968 p740
- ↑ The Times, 1 March 1969
- ↑ The Times, 4 March 1969
- ↑ The Times, 17 June 1970
- ↑ The Times, 19 December 1972
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- The Engineer of 6th July 1894 p9
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
