Strachan and Henshaw
Engineers of Whitehall, Bristol.
Note: Strachan is pronounced 'strawn'
See Robert Price Strachan and George Henshaw
1879 Company established. Maker of stationary engines. [1]. Steam driven mortar mixers.[2]
1900 Private company.
1914 Engineers. Specialities: electric tramway materials, paper bag making, printing machinery, electric telpherage conveying plants for transporting coal, coke of merchandise. Employees 249. [3]
1920 Business was bought by E. S. and A. Robinson
By 1960 was part of the Robinson Group of Companies[4]
1961 Engineers, specialising in design and manufacture of machinery for printing, paper converting, packaging, heavy mechanical handling, nuclear power stations and wagon marshalling equipment. 1,000 employees. [5]
1968 Queen's Award to Industry for Export Achievement to the Printing, Paper Converting and Printing Machinery division, and for Technological Innovation to the Mechanical Handling division.[6]
2008 Business acquired by Babcock International Group
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ Plate 83, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times Dec. 20, 1961
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer 1968/04/26 p650