Noble and Lund
Noble and Lund of The Northern Machine Tool Works, Felling-on-Tyne, Gateshead.
1886 Company founded by Harry Noble and Pearson Lund at Forth Banks as machine tool makers.
Later the works were transferred to Felling-on-Tyne
1899 Public company with Mr. Noble as Chairman and Managing Director
1908 Reverted to private company.
1913 Photo and brief description of large armour plate planing maschine. It would admit work up to 13 ft. 6 in. wide and 12 ft. high underneath the cross-girder, and the length of stroke was 25 ft. Weight 190 tons.[1]. See photo.
1914 Engineers and machine tool makers. Specialities: lathes, drilling machines and machine tools generally, band sawing machines for metal. Employees 300. [2]
1934 Description of 55" centre-height lathe for English Steel Corporation, Brightside, Sheffield. Total length of bed 86ft 8" [3]
1947 Company made public.
1961 Large machine tool makers, ironfounders and engineers, producing planing machines, Plano milling machines, beam end milling machines, girder end milling machines, lathes, ingot parting machines, boring machines, Fluifeed cold sawing machines, bandsawing machines and saw sharpening machines. 500 employees. [4]
1987 Acquired Bull Group, maker of electric motors, and H. G. Sanders, maker of packaging products for adhesives and creams, and Eurotek, maker of office furniture.[5]
1989 Announced losses which were blamed on accounting errors at Kwiklok[6]
1989 Name changed to Cooks Industries plc. but the company was loss making.[7]
c.1990 Acquired from the receiver by F. M. T.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1913/03/28
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Engineering 1934/06/01
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times Aug. 6, 1987
- ↑ The Times Aug. 12, 1989
- ↑ Newcastle Journal 12 September 1989