Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Fairbairn, Macpherson and Co

From Graces Guide
1906. Locomotive frame plate slotting machine.

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1906. Locomotive frame plate slotting machine.

of Wellington Foundry, Leeds.[1]

1900 Fairbairn, Naylor, Macpherson and Co was combined with 2 others into a new company as Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Limited, of Belfast and Leeds. Fairbairn, Macpherson and Co was the Leeds branch of the firm, at the Wellington Foundry.

1909 Brief description of a large trepanning machine supplied to William Beardmore and Co [2]

Manufacturer of machinery for the preparing and spinning of flax, hemp, tow, jute, and waste silk, and for the manufacture of twines, and rope yarns, and the stranding and laying of hemp or manilla ropes. Also makers of machine tools for general engineering purposes, and of special tools for ordnance and railway work.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1922/10/13
  2. Engineering 1909/04/30