Newton Brothers
Newton Brothers of Alfreton Road, Derby.
1899 Company founded.
1920 October. Exhibited at the Commercial Motor Exhibition at Olympia with a 3.5 ton electric vehicle with a tipping body. [1]
1928 Public company formed as Haslam and Newton
1935 Name changed.
1937 Electrical engineers and manufacturers, specialists in aircraft generators. [2]
1954 Newton Brothers (Derby), Ltd. Designers and manufacturers of special electrical equipment, including lightweight aircraft generators, wind or engine-driven, and with A.C., D.C or dual-purpose outputs. Patent automatic carbon pile voltage or current regulators. Rotary transformers and converters. High-frequency alternators. H.T. D.C. generators and sine wave alternators. Directors: F. V. Pipe, O.B.E., A.M.I.E.E. {Chairman and Managing Director), H. E. Midgley, M.A. (Cantab), M.I.C.E., M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E. (Vice-Chairman), R. Mitchell, M.I.Mech.E.; F. Newton, M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E. {Technical Consultant), G. Smith, F.C.A.; B. J. Williams (Technical Director), F. Bond {Sales}. Senior Executives: G. Harrison {Engineering Manager}; L. N. Eyley {Secretary}. Head Office and Works: Alfreton Road, Derby. T.: Derby 47676 (3 lines). T.A.: Dynamo Derby. Codes: A.B.C., Bentley’s, B.E.A.M.A.[3]
1961 Specialist electrical engineers and manufacturers of automatic and transistorised voltage regulators, rotary transformers, and converters, HP alternators, motor generators and other specialised electrical equipment. [4]
Also see Newton-Derby
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th October 1920 p424
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE