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Drum Engineering Co
From Graces Guide
of 28 Humboldt Street, Bradford, Yorkshire. Telephone: Bradford 2358. Cables: "Drum, Phone, Bradford" (1929), maker of rotary pumps.
1892 Business established[1]
1905 Advert for pumps. Of 27 Charles Street, Bradford. [2]
1913 Advert for pumps. Of 33 Brook Street, Bradford. [3]
1917 Advert for pumps. Of 33 Brook Street, Bradford. [4]
1919 Advert for pumps. Of 33 Brook Street, Bradford. [5]
1922 maker of rotary pumps "suitable for any method of driving"
1927 Advert for pumps. [6]
1929 Listed Exhibitor. Manufacturers of Patent Rust-proofed Steel Tennis Posts for Grass or Hard Courts. Patent Tennis Ball Cleaner. (Stand No. B.2) [7]
1940 Advert for pumps. [8]
1945 Advert for pumps (of Humboldt (sic) Street). [9]
1968 Pump for discharging road tankers for United Molasses Co (of Dudley Hill, Bradford). [10]
By 1987 had been acquired by Syltone Ltd
2004 Syltone, including Drum, was acquired by Gardner-Denver Co[11]
Notes:
- The company is still based in Bradford
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Gardner Denver website
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1905. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1913. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p408
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p232
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p264
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p163
- ↑ 1929 British Industries Fair Page 52
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p134
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p162
- ↑ The Engineer of 19th April 1968 p629
- ↑ Companies House filing