Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Cromwell Engineering Co

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Cromwell Engineering Co

Engine makers of Chauntry Place and 94 Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry (1912). Later at 133 Foleshill Road, Coventry (1920).

c1907 Company formed in Coventry probably by Frederick Payne

1911 Experimented with producing a few cars

1920 Patent by Cromwell Engineering Co (Coventry) with F. Payne on lead screw nuts for lathes and similar purposes[1]

Manufacture the 'Smallpeice Lathe' during the 1930s.[2]

1940 Produced a Multi-cut Lathe sold by Alfred Herbert.[3]

1940 the factory was destroyed by German bombs.

1941 At an EGM of the Cromwell Engineering Co (Coventry), it was agreed that it should be wound up voluntarily[4]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1920/10/15
  2. See Crosby Smallpeice
  3. Automobile Engineer: 1940/02
  4. The London Gazette 30 May 1941
  • Coventry’s Motorcar Heritage by Damien Kimberley ISBN 978 0 7524 5448 1