John Stirk and Sons

Lathe. Exhibit at the National Slate Museum.

Lathe. (Detail). Exhibit at the National Slate Museum.

1905. Four spindle drill.

1907.

1907.

1928. Hiloplane.

1928. Hilomill.

December 1929.

1934.

1936.

1943.

January 1953.

1954.

John Stirk and Sons of Halifax were machine tool makers

1866 Business established by John Stirk.

1894 Greenwood Stirk became a partner

1906 Company incorporated

1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with electrically operated planer

1927 Advert for Hiloplane

1930 'The largest planing machine ever exported from this country has just been delivered to the Ateliers Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, Belgium. The machine was built John Stirk and Sons, Halifax; is electrically operated, weighs 110 tons, and can execute work up to a maximum length of 26ft., 12ft. wide, and 11ft. 8in. high.'. This was a plano-milling machine. Motors made by Horace Green and Co.

1940 Advert for Hiloplanes and Hiloplows

1945 Advert. Planers

At some point became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coventry Machine Tool Works

Maker of Stirk planing machines.

1961 Acquired by Wickman

1964 After another difficult year, the businesses of the 2 companies (i.e. Coventry and Stirk) were combined under the name John Stirk and Sons

1984 John Brown and Co sold the Halifax-based machine tools business to James H. Vickery

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Sources of Information

• The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p244
• Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p
• Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p146
• Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p180