Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Co
Formerly Northern Agricultural Implement Foundry Co
1864 Smiths and Mackay had been founders at Rose Street Foundry, when their assets were sequestrated for sale[1]
1895 Rose Street Foundry Co won the contract for the replacement of the "Black Bridge" in Inverness
1909 The Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Company changed its Memorandum of Association[2]
c.1921 Formed A. I. Electric Welding Appliances Co as a subsidiary
1922 The A-I Electric Welding Appliances Company purchased from the proprietors, Mr James and Mr Dudley Forman, of Messrs, Thomas Forman and Sons, as from December 1st 1921, the A.-I. Manufacturing Co, Industry Works, Sunbridge-road, Bradford.
The A-I Electric Welding Appliances Company - the proprietor of which was the Rose-street Foundry and Engineering Co - started manufacturing the A-I electric butt, spot and seam resistance welding machines, also electric heating machines at its Inverness Works.[3]
1923 Cecil Allarton Hadley of Inverness and the Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Co patented "Improvements in electric resistance welding". Several further patents were filed by these applicants, some on welding, some on container design.
1926 The foundry company was still in business in Inverness [4]
1939 The Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Co, Ltd., Inverness , which specialises in electric welding , has become amalgamated with two of the most noted welding-companies in ...[5]. These seem to have been "The Thomson Gibb Welding Company of America and the 3.A. Electromecanique of Brussels. The former have been manufacturing resistance welding machines ..."[6]. Another news item of the time refers to: "The A. I. Electric Welding Appliances Co — a name well known in resistance welding activities for almost twenty years ..."[7] and
1945 After 50 years, the company changed its name to Resistance Welders Limited, with a view to describing more accurately the main business now conducted by the company, the manufacture of resistance welding machines.[8]
1949 "It was announced on Tuesday that the Royal Commission on awards to inventors declined to recommend an award to Resistance Welders, Ltd., Rose Street, Inverness, in connection with the laying of the Pluto pipe-line ..."[9]
1962 Became A. I. Welders Ltd
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette 23 August 1864
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette 26 October 1909
- ↑ The Engineer 1922/05/12
- ↑ London Gazette 1 June 1926
- ↑ The Scotsman 16 May 1939
- ↑ Aberdeen Weekly Journal 18 May 1939
- ↑ Highland News 20 May 1939
- ↑ Inverness Courier 10 July 1945
- ↑ Highland News and Football Times 20 August 1949