Glenfield and Kennedy
Glenfield and Kennedy of Low Glencairn Street, Kilmarnock.
1899 Incorporated as a limited company by the amalgamation of the Glenfield Co., and Kennedys Patent Water Meter Co. Ltd. The capital of the company was £325,000, and its object was to carry on the business of hydraulic and sanitary engineers, ironfounders, and manufacturers.[1]
1899 Beam engines preserved at Blagdon Pumping Station
1900 Pamphlet describing Ashley's patent pump. [2]
1900 Hydraulic fittings and appurtenances, water-main cleaners, water-level indicators, recorders etc. [3]
1900 Description and illustration of Ashley Pump made by Glenfirld & Kennedy under the patent of Herbert Ashley in 'The Engineer'. [4]
Large gas regulator valve with pipe around 36 inch diameter. Exhibit at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.
1906 Description of of a pumping station erected by Glenfield and Kennedy in connection with the working of the Premier diamond mines, near Pretoria, Transvaal The machinery installed consisted of two sets of vertical inverted triple-expansion surface-condensing engines driving direct-coupled pumps. Cylinders 16 1/2 in., 27 in., and 45 in. diameter, with 2-ft. stroke.[5]
1909 Description and drawings of cast iron columns and bases, having a central steel bar and granolithic filling. See drawing. [6]
1911 Issued pamphlet on their integrating and recording weir meter. [7]
1914 Hydraulic and sanitary engineers and ironfounders. Specialities: water meters and pumps for wells and boreholes, all classes of fittings for waterworks, hydraulic machinery, pumping machinery etc. Employees 1,500. [8]
1921 Established Centrifugal Castings, Ltd as a subsidiary, on land leased from Glenfield and Kennedy.
By 1923 British Pitometer Co., Ltd had been formed as subsidiary company to develop the use and sale of the instruments required in connexion with water waste investigations, trunk main surveys, pump slip and meter tests. All the instruments, Venturi tubes, etc., supplied by the Company were manufactured by Glenfield and Kennedy.
1929 Description of anti-vacuum valves for pipelines on hydro-electric schemes.[9]
1929 Description of the new heavy engineering shop. Machine tools included 'a vertical boring mill by Messrs. G. Richards and Company, capable of boring up to 26 ft. in diameter. [See illustration] ..... There is a vertical planer by Messrs. Shanks and Company, ..... for machining surfaces up to 16 1/2 ft. by 12 ft., and also large planers by Messrs. Stirk and Company. The heavy lathes are by Messrs. G. and A. Harvey, with capacities up to 9 ft. swing in the gap and 25 ft. in length. The most interesting work in hand, at the time of the official opening, were the large condensers in course of construction for Leeds power station. ...'[10]
1930 Description of hydraulic jet disperser made for the Arapuni power scheme on the Waitako River in New Zealand[11]
1932 Description of control valves for the Uhl River hydro-electric scheme.[12] [13]
1937 Hydraulic engineers. [14]
1954 Private company, presumably as a result of the formation of Glenfield and Kennedy Holdings.
1961 Valve specialists and hydraulic engineers. 2,200 employees. [15]
Glenfield Invicta Ltd is now owned by the AVK Group founded in Denmark by Aage Valdemar Kjaer. Glenfield website.
See also Glenfield and Kennedy by William S. Murphy
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Financial News 28 December 1899
- ↑ The Engineer of 7th September 1900 p251
- ↑ The Engineer of 16th November 1900 p497
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/12/14 p587
- ↑ Engineering 1906/08/24
- ↑ Engineering 1909/12/17
- ↑ The Engineer of 18th August 1911 p187
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Engineering 1929/03/01
- ↑ Engineering 1929/06/14
- ↑ Engineering 1930/01/31
- ↑ Engineering 1932/09/02
- ↑ Engineering 1932/10/07
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10