Richard Hornsby and Sons
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of Spittlegate Ironwoks
of Grantham
Richard Hornsby and Sons was an iron and brass founder.
- 1810 Arrived in Grantham and set up Seman and Hornsby with his business partner, Richard Seaman, a fellow Methodist.
- 1815 Richard Hornsby was an iron and brass founder working from Spittlegate Ironworks at Grantham.
- 1828 The firm made ploughs and seed drills.
- 1840 The company made steam engines, which were used for traction engines in the 1850s. These were used for harvesting crops.
- 1849 Produced their first portable engine.
- 1850 Described as 'agricultural implement makers, iron and brass founder and paper maker'.
- 1851 Award at the 1851 Great Exhibition. See details at 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class IX.
- 1851 With his three sons (Richard II, James and William) the firm becomes Richard Hornsby and Sons
- 1863 The first traction engine built under the Bonnall and Astbury patents.
- 1876 Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham. [1]
- 1864 Richard, the founder, dies.
- 1879 Incorporated as a limited company. The company was registered on 20 November, to take over the business of the firm of the same name, as engineers and machine manufacturers. [2]
- 1880 The firm gained limited liability status.
- 1880 The firm offered 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 nhp engines.
- 1889 Portable Winding and Pumping Engine. [3]
- 1889 Showed engines at the RASE at Windsor. [4]
- 1894 June. Took part in the Royal Agricultural Society’s Competitive Trial of Oil Engines. 8.0 bhp fixed engine and a portable engine. Article in ‘The Engineer’. [5]
- 1894 Smithfield Club Show. Exhibited two oil engines. [6]
- 1900 Paris Exhibition. Description of three oil engine shown. [7]
- 1906 Absorbed J. E. H. Andrews and Co.
- 1906 The manufacture of steam engines was discontinued.
- 1911 Electrical Exhibition. Suction gas engines and others. [8]
- 1911 Smithfield Club Show. Exhibited stationary oil engines, a binder, a straw trusser, mowers, ploughs and a drill. [9]
- 1914 Listed as engineers. Specialities: oil, petrol and gas engines, suction gas plants, general agricultural implements. Employees 3,500. [10]
- 1918 Amalgamated with Ruston, Proctor and Co to become Ruston and Hornsby.
- 1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.
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[edit] Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 21st July 1876 p40
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Engineer of 1st March 1889 p189
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th June 1889 p546
- ↑ The Engineer of 22nd June 1894 p540
- ↑ The Engineer of 6th July 1894 p9
- ↑ The Engineer of 16th November 1900 p487
- ↑ The Engineer of 13th October 1911 p390
- ↑ The Engineer of 8th December 1911 p594
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- Traction Engine Album by Malcolm Ranieri. Pub 2005
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- [1] Wikipedia
- The Engineer of 14th December 1894 p524
- Steam Engine Builders of Lincolnshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1955 by Goose and Son
