E. Green and Son
Edward Green and Son of Wakefield and Manchester
1821 Established by Edward Green, Senior[1]
1826 Company founded.
1845 Green's Economiser was invented [2]
1851 Employing 30 men.[3]
1861 Employing 200 persons.[4]
1894 Antwerp Exhibition. Fuel economiser. Awarded Diploma of Honour for Large Mechanical Constructions [5] [6]
1895 130,000 Green's Economisers had been installed[7]
1913 A complete reorganisation of the Wakefield works, said to be the largest of its kind in the world, was underway[8]
1914 Manufacturers of fuel economisers for steam boilers to utilise waste heat in flue gasses, boiler feed pumps and small horizontal steam engines, air heaters. Employees 1,000. [9]
1923 Sir Edward Green (1831-1923), son of the founder, died[10]. His elder son, Edward Lycett Green, succeeded to the title. His second son, Francis Green who had started with the company in 1880, became chairman[11]
1927 Economiser. [12]
1933 Private company formed to acquire a company of similar name[13]: Green's Economiser Ltd
1933 Description of an 'Eco Minor' dry-cleaning machine shown at the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition at Olympia. It was marketed by their subsidiary company, Eco Power, Limited, 15, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, W.C.2. 'A very important characteristic is that it makes use of non-inflammable, solvents, viz., either carbon tetra-chloride or trichlorethylene, which, together with the fact that it is compact, self-contained and totally enclosed, makes the machine particularly suitable for use in such vessels as passenger liners, whilst on land it may be installed in situations which are forbidden to the machine using inflammable solvents, a distinct advantage to laundries and so forth, where it can be employed on existing premises without the imposition of any restrictions. ....'[14]
1933 A group of employees left the company to form a rival business, Senior Economisers
1958 Public company[15]: E. Green and Son Ltd
1960 Acquired Spurr, Inman and Co[16]
1961 Manufacturers of fuel economisers, air heaters and all types of heat exchangers, industrial dust collectors, mechanical draught fans and specialised castings. 1,000 employees. [17]
1966 Diversification into other markets than large stationary plant with order from Norwegian shipbuilder for 7 economiser units to fit to diesel engine exhausts[18]
1968 Company results reported as Green's Economisers. E. Green and Son became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Green's Economiser Group Ltd
1971 Expansion into air-cooled heat exchangers for the chemical industry[19]
1975 Acquired the ammonia-systems unit of Albright and Wilson, based in Wakefield[20].
1983 Senior acquired Green's Economiser Group plc which was renamed Senior Engineering (Thermal)
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Mar 31, 1923
- ↑ The Times, Dec 01, 1913
- ↑ 1851 Census
- ↑ 1861 Census
- ↑ The Engineer of 1st June 1894 p469
- ↑ The Engineer of 2nd November 1894 p387
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Mar 26, 1895
- ↑ The Times, Dec 01, 1913
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times, Mar 31, 1923
- ↑ The Times, Mar 23, 1954
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p116
- ↑ The Times, Sep 01, 1933
- ↑ Engineering 1933/09/15
- ↑ The Times, Aug 11, 1958
- ↑ The Times, Feb 06, 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Sep 14, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Oct 14, 1971
- ↑ The Times, Sep 15, 1975