Butterfield and Co
F. and J. Butterfield and Co of Keighley
Partners were Francis Butterfield and John Butterfield
Machine tool makers of Keighley.
formerly Croft, Butterfields and Wilkinson
1881 Description and drawings of a large wall-type planing machine for Oswald and Co., of Southampton, capable of planing a surface 16ft. wide by 16ft. high[2]
1885 F. and J. Butterfield and Company Limited, Midland Tool Works, Keighley, was registered, with capital of £80,000.[3]
1886 Clyde Locomotive Co: machine for grinding the slots of case-hardened links for locomotive valve gear [4]
1889 F. and J . Butterfield and Co. issued a catalogue covering lathes, screwing machines and accessories, drilling and boring machines, planing, shaping, and slotting machines, milling and wheel cutting, punching, bending, forging, and other machinery.
1893 The decision was made to wind up the company, owing chiefly to the depressed condition of the machine tool trade.[5]
Made a special horizontal boring and facing machine for centrifugal pump casings for J. and H. Gwynne.[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1881/11/18
- ↑ Engineering 1881/11/18
- ↑ Leeds Times 24 October 1885
- ↑ Engineering 1886/01/15
- ↑ Armley and Wortley News 6 October 1893
- ↑ [1] The Engineer, 6 April 1894, p.284
- The National Archives BT 31/3548/21676