Guest and Chrimes
Foundry and Brass Works, Rotherham
Represented by Thomas Beggs of 37 Southampton Street, Strand, London, WC.
1843 Company established by Chrimes Brothers. Later became Chrimes, Neatby and Co.
1847 Taken over (it is thought) by Guest and Chrimes
1856 Manufactured water meter to William Siemens's design
1857 Richard Chrimes, of Brass Works, Rotherham, was elected to membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, proposed by C. W. Siemens and seconded by W. Fairbairn; he remained a member until 1889[1]
1862 Most of the station gas meters used by the London gas companies were made by Mr Parkinson or by Mr Crosley[2]
1862 Guest and Chrimes acquired the gas apparatus and meter manufactory of William Crosley in London.
1871 Richard Chrimes employed 400 hands
1873 After a lengthy dispute with the Birmingham brass workers union, the union proposed to set up a co-operative at Masbro in direct competition with the company[3]
1879 The town boundary was to be extended and would include the works, which would increase the rates paid and prevent the company draining into the river. Mr Eckholme, the general manager of the company, suggested he could devise a cheaper drainage scheme[4]
1914 Foundry and General Brass Works. Specialities: Chrimes' High-Pressure Loose Valve Cocks, Guest and Chrimes' Improved Sluice Valves (body cast in one piece), Siemens and Adamson's Water Meter, Reservoir Valves and Fittings, Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus, General Plumbers' Goods, Gas Fittings including High-Power Lamps, Wet and Dry Gas Meters. Employees 400. [5]
1917 Private limited company incorporated to acquire the business Guest and Chrimes carried on in Rotherham.
1922 Their secretary, Mr. T. W. Bottoms, retired after forty-two years' service with the firm and was succeeded by Mr A. L. Guilmant.[6]
1961 Hydraulic engineers, producing sluice valves, water meters, penstocks and brasswork required in waterworks construction. 500 employees. [7]
By 1965 Hattersley (Ormskirk) held a substantial interest in the company.
By 1993 Tomkins plc was a major shareholder
1999 Acquired by Stanton plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saint-Gobain UK Ltd
1999 Product line rationalised in line with those of its parent; manufacturing and administration moved to Stanton-by-Dale, the factory of the parent[8]
2002 Name changed to Stanton Ltd
2008 Appointment of liquidators to Stanton Ltd (together with a number of other dormant companies)[9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ UK Mechanical Engineers, via Ancestry
- ↑ The Engineer 1862/04/04
- ↑ The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, April 26, 1873
- ↑ The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, June 28, 1879
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1922/08/04
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ 1999 Annual report
- ↑ London Gazette 11 January 2008