Heenan and Froude:1935 Review
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Heenan and Froude Limited, Newton Heath.
Heenan and Froude Limited, first founded in 1881, possesses a structural engineering works at Newton Heath, Manchester, and a general engineering works at Worcester. The activities at Newton Heath are confined to the design, manufacture and erection of structural steelwork of all kinds. The activities at Worcester comprise refuse destructors, dynamometers, water coolers, air filters and other appliances and plant of a general engineering nature.
At the Newton Heath works, with which this article is more particularly concerned, have been carried out many important contracts both for home and abroad, of which are typical:- Bridges on the north section of the Great Central Railway extension between London and Nottingham including the bridge over the River Trent. The viaduct to Exchange Station, Liverpool; Cornbrook Viaduct, Manchester; Viaduct over the River Ribble, Preston.
Power stations at Melbourne and Perth, Australia, for the Central Argentine Railway Company and for the Buenos Aires Western Railway Company; power stations at Ferrybridge (Yorks.), Runcorn (Lancashire), the Powell Duffryn Coal Co. (South Wales), and many others.
Other notable buildings are:— portions of Exchange Station, Manchester; the new Grand Stand at Epsom; steel warehouse at Trafford Park, Manchester, etc. Another interesting contract was that for the Blackpool Tower. The Tower at Wembley, now dismantled, was also manufactured and erected by this Company.
Heenan and Froude Limited have a very extensive experience in the erection of all classes of steel structures of first class quality. They pay special attention to the economic design and have always shown a preference for the use of British steel. The works at Newton Heath have been considerably reconstructed since 1921 and the plant is in first class order and well laid out for the efficient production of structural steelwork.
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