Schäffer & Budenberg (Schaeffer and Budenberg) Makers of patent steam, vacuum and hydraulic gauges, of 1 Southgate, St Mary's Street, Manchester and Hope Street, Glasgow.
The British office and works of a company established originally in Germany by Bernhard Schaffer and Christian Friedrich Budenberg.
1872 Pressure gauges used on several boilers at the RASE[1]
1886 Parker's Steam Traps.
1889 Acme steam traps [2]
The Whitworth Street premises are shown on Goad's Insurance Plans for Manchester (Map 49 dated 1893), comprising a building of five storeys plus basement, shared with a publishing company (in the basement), isolated from other buildings by the surrounding roads (Whitworth St., Commerce St., and Fairfield St.).
1908 Tachometer used in wind tunnels[3]
1909 Made the Graham twin counter for recording compressions and explosions in gas engines[4].
1911 Electrical Exhibition. Pressure and vacuum gauges. [5]
1914 Moved to Woodfield Road, Broadheath, Altrincham.
1918 Became the Budenberg Gauge Co after being taken over by the British Government, who offered shares for sale to non-aliens. C. F. Budenburg, who had been the manager of the business for the past twenty-nine years and managing director since the company was incorporated in 1902, purchased all the issued shares.[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1872/08/02
- ↑ The Engineer of 3rd May 1889 p379
- ↑ The Times, Dec 30, 1908
- ↑ The Times, Feb 03, 1909
- ↑ The Engineer of 13th October 1911 p390
- ↑ The Engineer 1918/04/05, p 306.