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D. and J. Tullis

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August 1899.
Radial arm drill, ex-Kingshill Colliery, at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.
February 1901.
January 1902.
1902.
1912.
1917.
1918.
Radial arm drill, ex-Thomas Hudson (of Sheepford), at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.
Detail. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.
1943/50. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.
1943/50. Detail. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.

D. and J. Tullis of Kilbowie Ironworks, Clydebank, were makers of laundry equipment and machine tools

1891 Company founded.

1898 D. and J. Tullis Limited was incorporated as a public company, with capital of £100,000, to acquire as a going concern the undertaking of D. & J. Tullis, Kilbowie. Directors - D. K. Tullis; James T. Tullis; Richard Ramage; Charles Burns.[1][2]

1902 Laundry machines [3]

1913 Description and drawings of eadia arm drilling and tapping machine [4]

1961 Steam laundry engineers. [5]

1969 Acquired by Melbray Group from Anderson Mavor[6]

1971 Attempt by Melbray to merge Manlove, Alliott and Co with the Tullis operations encountered problems with key staff unwilling to move and unexpectedly higher wages on Clydebank. Both were laundry engineers[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Glasgow Herald 27 August 1898
  2. ↑ Carlisle Journal - Tuesday 06 September 1898
  3. ↑ Fielden’s Magazine Vol 7
  4. ↑ Engineering 1913/01/03
  5. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  6. ↑ The Times, Jun 12, 1969
  7. ↑ The Times, Jul 31, 1971
  • Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/1987/3979
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