Manesty Machines
Manesty Machines Ltd., of Speke, Liverpool, makers of machinery for pharmaceutical, chemical, plastics and other industries (MM)
1906 Edwin Thompson (see Thompson and Capper Wholesale) visited Philadelphia, and secured the sole agency for the F. J. Stokes Machine Co. The agency flourished and eventually arrangements were made with Messrs. Stokes under which the machines were made in the Liverpool factory and called Manesty.
1935 In order to separate the manufacture of pharmaceutical products from the construction of machinery a new company, Manesty Machines, Ltd., was formed in Leeds.
The firm’s principal product was tablet compressing machinery and related equipment.
1946 Acquired by John Holroyd and Co.
1964 Holroyds was acquired by Renold Chains
1969 Queen’s Award to Industry, 1969 and 1971, and related papers
1972 New factory built for Manesty to separate the business from the Holroyd gear cutting activities[1]
1990 Acquired from Renold by Barry Wehmiller[2]
Now operates as BWI Manesty, producing modern tablet presses.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Manchester Archives: catalogues, 1935, 1938 (photocopies); correspondence, circa 1941 and 1971, giving details of firm’s history (2 items,); ‘Tablet Making,’ A. Little and K. A. Mitchell, 1963; photographs of machinery, 1937 onwards (53 items) and high speed tablet machine, 1970.