A-I Manufacturing Co
of Industry Works, Sunbridge-road, Bradford, maker of A1 system of electric welding of cycle and motor cycle rims.
1918 War Work: Discs, closing for primers. Glazed boards. Washers. Fuze collars. Brass tapes and weights. Foot and power stamping presses ...light ... with dies and tools. Electrical welding. Erecting Admiralty 10-inch bomb thrower. Loading trays. Welding cylinders and spherical bombs. Employees : Male 40, Female 180. Pre-War Work: Engineers, stampers, and button manufacturers. Electric welding.
1919 Girls wanted to learn Aerographing and Buttonmaking. Apply A I Manufacturing Company, ...bridge-road, Bradford.[1]
1919 Dissolution of the Partnership between Arthur Forman, James Forman, Thomas Bailey Forman and Dudley Perry Forman, carrying on business as Newspaper Proprietors, Printers, Lithographers and Publishers, at Sherwood-street. Nottingham and elsewhere, under the style or firm of THOS. FORMAN & SONS, and also as the A-I Manufacturing Company, of Sunbridge-road, Bradford, Engineers and Button Makers has been dissolved by mutual consent as from this 30th day of September 1919. The said Arthur Forman has retired from the business. The said James Forman and Dudley Perry Forman retire from the business of Newspaper Proprietors, and will continue in business in partnership on their own account, under the style of Thos. Forman and Sons, at Sherwood-Street, Nottingham, as Printers, Lithographers and Publishers, and also at Sunbridge-road, Bradford under the style of the A-I Manufacturing Company. The said Thomas Bailey Forman retires from the business of Thos. Forman & Son as Printers, lithographers and Publishers1, and of the A-I Manufacturing Company, and will continue in business at Sherwood-street, Nottingham, as T. Bailey Forman on his own account as a Newspaper Proprietor. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively as regards the business of Printers, Lithographers and Publishers and the A-I Manufacturing Company Ltd by the said James Forman and Dudley Perry Forman, and as regards the newspapers by the said Thomas Bailey Forman.[2]
1921 Proprietors were Mr James and Mr Dudley Forman, of Messrs, Thomas Forman and Sons
1921 Cecil Allarton Hadley of Bradford and the company patented "Improvements in Welding"
1922 the A-I Manufacturing Co was acquired by A-I Electric Welding Appliances Company. The Bradford Works were closed and manufacturing of the A-I electric butt, spot and seam resistance welding machines, also electric heating machines, were transferred to the purchaser's Inverness Works.[3]