Pollock and MacNab or Pollock and Macnab of Britannia Works, Hyde, and later Bredbury, Stockport were makers of machine tools and stationary engines.
1866 Business established.
c.1872: 16 HP horizontal engine for Greenfield & Stewart’s sawmill, Wellington New Zealand [1]
1879 Advert in The Argus, Melbourne, 5 July 1879, for Roberts, Morris and Deakin, agents in Victoria for Pollock & MacNab, offering horizontal engines, with cylinders 11"-28" bore, lathes with centres 7½" to 16", shaping, slotting and planing machines.
1888 Two beam engines for Alma Road Pumping Station, Ponders End.[2]
1907 Description of lathes and radial arm drill at the Olympia Exhibition.[3]
1908 Description of lathe for turning the ends of railway-wagon and carriage axles, as well as for other purposes.[4]
1911 Boring and Surfacing Lathes; Radial drills. [5]
1911 Manufacturer of Machine Tools for the Railways.[6]
1919 Company reincorporated as Pollock and MacNab (1919) Ltd.
1927 Detailed description of a 6.5" centre height friction-geared turret lathe.[7]
1928 Company liquidated.[8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Online copy of Wellington Independent, Issue 3426, 19 February 1872
- ↑ ‘Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 8: Greater London & South East‘, by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ Engineering 1907/10/25
- ↑ Engineering 1908/09/18
- ↑ Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham.
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911
- ↑ Engineering 1927/08/12
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33364/page/1705