Joshua Buckton and Co

Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.

1876.

1879.

1882. 11-feet shearing machine.

1885. The Inventions Exhibition Wicksteeds' Testing Machine.

1887. Double cutter planing machine.

1891. 50 Ton Testing Machine.

Exhibit at Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

Slotting machine at Armley Mill Museum

Exhibit at Armley Mill Museum.

1890. Testing machine in Professor Kennedy's Laboratory.

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1897. Snout Boring Machine.

1897. Double-Cutting Planing Machine.

1897. Plate Shearing Machine.

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1902. Planing and boring machines.

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1903. Vertical planer.

1903. Crank web slotter.

1903. Vertical Planer.

1903. Double cutting planing machine.

1903. Plate edge planer.

1904. 24 inch surfacing and boring lathe.

1904. 8 inch high-speed lathe.

1904.

1904.

1904. 39 - 12 inch high speed lathe.

1905. 6 Foot Radial Drill.

1905. 5 Foot Radial Drill.

1905. Two Spindle Radial Drill.

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Double-Cutting Planing Machine. 1906.

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Regenerative Reverse Planing Machine. 1907.

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1909. Large turbine lathe.

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1921. Machine tools at Well House Foundry, Leeds.

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J. Buckton and Co of Wellhouse Foundry, Meadow Road, Leeds.

1838 Foundry first thought to be active on 'Well House' site.

1842 Company established by Joshua Buckton.

1851 Employing 80 persons.

1865 Slotting Machine. Exhibit at Armley Mill Museum.

1876 Rail paring machine at Landore Siemens Steel Co.

1876 Members of the Iron and Steel Institute visited their machine and tool making works.

1882 Incorporated as a limited company.

Joseph Hartley Wicksteed succeeded Joshua Buckton as head of the firm

1893 'THE LARGEST PLANING MACHINE IN ENGLAND. Messrs. Joshua Buckton and Co., engineers, Leeds, have iust constructed for the Haslam Foundry Company, Derby, what is believed to be the largest and most comprehensive "table" planing machine in England. It is reported to be capable of turning a block 30ft. long, 12ft. wide, and 10ft. high - over five out of its six sides at one setting. The table itself weighs 30 tons, and will probably frequently have to carry a 20 ton casting. The bed of the machine is 45ft. long. Machines of equal width to this, and in most respects similar, have been made by the same firm for Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, for planing armonr plates, but the travelling table of those machines was 20ft. long. ....'

1894 Double Cutter and Transverse Action Planing machine.

1911 Electrical Exhibition. Planing machine with electrical drive by the Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co.

1914 Machine tool and testing machine manufacturers. Specialities: heavy ordnance and turbine lathes, armour plate and turbine planing machines, universal testing machines of largest capacity, the Buckton testing machine. Employees 500.

1921 Read an overview of the company in The Engineer 1921/08/12.

1924 Description of a gearbox combining the speed reduction obtainable with an epicyclic gear with the use of the shock-absorbing characteristics of helical springs, designed by Bostock and Bramley of Netherton, Huddersfield and constructed by Joshua Buckton, and Co.

1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.

1928 the machine tool business was acquired by Craven Brothers; the staff transferred to Reddish where the products were manufactured.

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