John Shaw & Sons of Wellington Works, St Stephen Street, Salford, Manchester
See Norbury and Shaw
See John Shaw (b.1808) and his son Joshua Shaw (1840-1913)
1873 Mention of John Shaw, Wellington, Salford.[1]
1908 Incorporated as a Private Limited Company, 10 September.
1914 Specialities: Hydraulic Presses, Pumps and Accumulators for all purposes, Rubber Presses, Pumping Engines, Hydraulic and Electric Passenger and Freight Lifts, Hydraulic Ram and Pump Leathers, Bale Studs etc. [2]
1922 Directors: P. Shaw (Managing), J. Shaw and P. Shaw (also Secretary).
1937 Private company.
1961 Hydraulic engineers. [3]
1968 600-ton press. [4]
2003 Group Rhodes purchased a division of engineering companies from Motherwell Bridge Plc, which it renamed Rhodes Interform Ltd, designers and manufacturers of special purpose-built presses and machinery. Shaw was one of these companies.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Evening News - Friday 07 March 1873
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer 1968/08/02 p161