Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,136 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Midgley and Sutcliffe

From Graces Guide
1895.
May 1896.
1909. Angle-iron bending machine.
1911.
1913. Radial arm drilling machine [1]
Dec 1921.
1926.
1931. A Plain and Universal Milling Machine
May 1950.
February 1959. Richmond.

of West End Tool Works, Bradford; of "Richmond" Tool Works, Bradford.

of Hillidge Works, Hunslet, Leeds.

Producers of machine tools, including 'Richmond' milling machines and radial arm drills.

1889 Company founded.

1895 Advert. Machine tools. Tool makers.[2]

1930s The company moved to Hunslet, near Leeds.

1947 Private company.

1955 Acquired by George Cohen, Sons and Co.[3]

1961 Machine tool manufacturers.[4]

Heavy-duty drill on stand. Exhibit at Anson Engine Museum.


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1913/10/10
  2. Mechanical World Year Book 1895. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p16
  3. The Times, Sep 29, 1955
  4. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE