Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Co

From Graces Guide
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of Alliance Works, Darlington.

1907 'The Blake Boiler, Wagon, and Engineering Company Limited—who some time ago took over the Nestfield works of the now defunct Darlington Waggon and Engineering Company have, just lately received the important order for eighty high-capacity freight waggons, required by the Catalinas Warehouse and Mole Company, of Buenos Ayres.'[1]

1922 Of Alliance Works, Darlington. Manufactured railway wagons, wheels and axles, and multitubular boilers.

1930 The works that ".... originally belonged to the Blake Boiler Co., and passed into the bands of Messrs. J. Birdsall and Co., of Leeds, who stripped the machinery." The works were taken over by the Darlington Rustless Iron and Steel Co[2]

Presumably became part of Metropolitan Cammell Carriage, Wagon and Finance Co as in 1949 Liquidators appointed at the same time as other subsidiaries in the successor company[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Leeds Mercury - Friday 01 February 1907
  2. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 25 September 1930
  3. London Gazette 10 June 1949