Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co
1868 Business founded by Walter Eddison and Richard Noddings - see Eddison and Noddings
At some point established works at Dorchester in Dorset - see Eddison Steam Rolling Co. The business spread to other locations.
1883 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership hereinfore subsisting between us the undersigned, Walter Eddison and Richard Noddings, carrying on business at Cowley, in the county of Oxford, as Steam Plough Proprietors and Cultivators and Machine Agents, under the style or firm of Eddison and Noddings and the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company, expired and was dissolved...'[1]
1883 Jack Eddison bought out his partners in the business, which owned 14 sets of steam cultivators[2]
1887 A manager, John Allen, was brought to Oxford from the Dorchester works
1888 The partnership of Walter Eddison and John Edwin Eddison as Walter Eddison and Co was dissolved.
1897 John Allen bought out Eddison; he concentrated the business on steam road-rolling rather than cultivation, which was a more lucrative business.
1899 Maker of a scarifier that could be attached to one wheel of steam road roller; made under Bomford's patent.
1900-1902 Alfred Douglas Mackenzie was general manager of the company at Cowley; the company was working 80 road locomotives[3]
1900 Tenders were received from Messrs. T. C. Aveling and Co., of Birmingham, and The Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co. for the supply of steam roller for use on the roads the district ...[4]
1901 "Mr. William Anderson to the post. Mr. Anderson has during the past twelve years, been foreman to the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co., and has had long experience of the manufacture and use of stationary and locomotive engines."[5]
1904 John Allen was proprietor of the company.
1907 Result of tender process: the tender of the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co.. to supply a steam roller, driver, water cart and other ... [6]
Maker of steam plough
1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Steam Motor Wagons, Tractors and Ploughs etc. see the 1917 Red Book
1917 "Three tenders had been received for steam rolling. The tender of the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co. was accepted."[7]
1917 "The Surveyor reported that in reply to a request for a steam roller, the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co. had stated they had several rollers at liberty, but they were very short of drivers"[8]
Presumably connected with Oxford Steam Plough Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:5 January 1883 Issue:25185 Page:97
- ↑ For Love of Country By Anthony Hill
- ↑ Mackenzie's I Mech E proposal
- ↑ South Bucks Standard 03 August 1900
- ↑ Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette 07 June 1901
- ↑ Nuneaton Observer 06 September 1907
- ↑ Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette 19 June 1917
- ↑ Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette 04 December 1917