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 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.

Qualter, Hall and Co

From Graces Guide
Advertising sign. (Image: Bob Walton)
Whitby Swing Bridge (Image: Bob Walton).
Whitby Swing Bridge (Image: Bob Walton).

of Barnsley.

1860 Company founded.

formerly Needham, Qualter, Hall and Co

1879. Partnership change. '...the Partnership which has for some time past been carried on by George Bower, John Qualter, Edward Hall, and William Shaw Harrison, under the firm of Quaker, Hall, and Company, at Barnsley, in the county of York, in the trade or business of Ironfounders and Boiler Makers, was dissolved, so far as relates to the said William Shaw Harrison...'[1]

1910 Private company.

1961 Mining equipment and pneumatic equipment manufacturers, iron founders, mechanical and constructional engineers, specialising in skip winding plant and equipment, mine car handling plant and equipment, spiral chutes, conveyors, screens, acid sludge treatment plants, shuttle cars, pneumatic control equipment. 260 employees. [2]

2003 Refurbished Whitby Swing Bridge.

2019 See the Company web site

See also Qualter, Hall and Co: A Handful of History 1860-1960

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Sources of Information

  • Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10