A. I. Electric Welding Machines
of 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1;
of 183 Westminster Bridge-road, London SE1. (1922)
of Rose Street, Inverness
1922 The A-I Electric Welding Appliances Company has purchased from the proprietors, Mr James and Mr Dudley Forman, of Messrs, Thomas Forman and Sons, as from December 1st 1921, the A. I. Manufacturing Co, Industry Works, Sunbridge-road, Bradford. The Bradford Works were closed down and the A-I Electric Welding Appliances Company - the proprietor of which was the Rose-street Foundry and Engineering Co - started manufacturing the A-I electric butt, spot and seam resistance welding machines, also electric heating machines at its Inverness Works.[1]
1929 Description of electric welding machines made by the A.I. Electric Welding Appliances Co.[2]
1937 Electric resistance welding machine manufacturers. "A-I" Welders.[3]
1938 A.-I. Electric Welding Appliances Co supplied mobile electric welding plant to London Passenger Transport Board for welding rails underground[4]
1939 The Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Co, Ltd., Inverness , which specialises in electric welding , has become amalgamated with two of the most noted welding-companies in ...[5]
1944 James McGregor Sinclair, managing director of A.I. Electric Welding Machines Ltd was awarded an MBE[6]
1952 "A. 1. Electric Welding Machines, Ltd., a firm with plant in Inverness, demonstrated what is held to be the most rapid and economical method of flange and pipe assembly."[7]
1969 James McGregor Sinclair, managing director of A.I. Welders Ltd was awarded an OBE[8]
1972 Order for automatic welding equipment received by A I Welders from India[9]
2002 Due to the company restructuring, there was an auction of machine tools - via Henry Butcher and Co.