Acme Manufacturing Co
Engine makers, of Budhill, Shettleston, Glasgow
1888 Alexander Burt, as Burt and Co, built the Acme gas engine to patents held by Burt and McGhee[1]
1901 Alexander Burt became the Acme Manufacturing Co
1901 Listed as 'Acme Manufacturing Co, 153 Queen St.' under 'Machine Makers and Millwrights' and under 'Engineers'.[2]
1901 Building gas and oil engines rated from 2.5 to 40 bhp [3]
1902 Petitioned for Cessio against an ironmonger, A. C. Gilbert[4]
1903 Laundry Engineers (could this be connected with Acme Domestic Equipment?), Machine Makers[5]
1903 There also was an Acme Foundry Co, Gartocher Pl., Shettleston, Engineers[6]
1904 Acme Engine Co, at the same address, issued a catalogue.
1907 Listed as 'Acme Manufacturing Co Ltd, 34 John Street, city.' under 'Mangle Manufacturers'.[7]
1911 Messrs Joseph S. Burt, Thomas W. Burt, George P. Burt and J. W. Burt, trading as Acme Manufacturing Co, machine makers, petitioned for cessio against William Cameron of Dundee[8]
1919 Company in liquidation[9]
1922 Patent. 'Improvements in or relating to wringing machines. Peter Burt, Joseph Smith Burt, Thomas Wotherspoon Burt, George Peter Burt, John Wotherspoon Burt, May 17, 1923: GB197560-A. .... (trading as Acme Manufacturing Co.). June 8, 1922. Two-roller wringers, attaching to tables, tubs, &c.-A bracket, for clamping a wringer to a tub, Fig. 1, or table, Fig. 2, so that the rollers may be always vertically above...'[10]
By 1930, the Acme Works, Budhill, Shettleston, were occupied by The Glasgow Radiator Company[11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1904/12/09
- ↑ 1901/02 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1999. ISBN 1 873098 50 2
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 26 September 1902
- ↑ 1903-04 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ 1903-04 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ 1907/08 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 6 October 1911
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 21 November 1919
- ↑ Patent Maps
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 13 June 1930