Sturtevant Engineering Co
of 75 Queen Victoria Street, London EC
of Acre Street, Denton, Manchester.
c.1886 Sturtevant Blower Co founded as representative of the B. F. Sturtevant Company, both of Boston, U.S.A.
American George Augustus Mower started business on his own account in London under the name of Sturtevant Blower Co., as an agent of the B. F. Sturtevant Co. In 1890, the name was changed to Sturtevant Engineering Co. Coinciding with the death of Benjamin Sturtevant, this name change probably signified the taking of legal control of what now was their subsidiary. Branch offices were established in Glasgow, Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm.
1895 Advert. Heating and ventilating systems. formerly Sturtevant Blower Co.
1899 Limited company status
For a brief time, until 1906, the Sturtevant Engineering Co. Ltd manufactured electrical switchgear under the Igranic name, licensed from the Cutler Hammer Co. (USA) and manufactured at Sturtevant's first factory at Bankside, London. In 1904, the Electrical Transmission Co of Hammersmith, maker of switchgear, was acquired. Mower, appointed as the Cutler agent in 1898, was responsible for these arrangements.
1904 Acquired Electrical Transmission Co
1911 Entered the crushing and grinding machine business, under licence from the Sturtevant Mill Co. of Boston, USA.
1913 The switch-gear business was transferred into a separate company Igranic Electric Co, under the control of George Augustus Mower.
1917 Subsidiary E. Reader and Sons of Nottingham incorporated.
Post-WWI The company was made independent of the US parent to meet Government requirements.
1929 Formed a new subsidiary Progressive Engineering Co (1929) to manufacture industrial ventilation fans.
By 1930 the company was still producing most of the US prouduct range (including "Monogram" fans, scooped-bladed "Multivane" fans, forges (discontinued in the US) and vacuum cleaners) in addition to the British crushing, grinding and screening machinery and cash tube systems. The enlarged first and last letters of the Sturtevant name cast into these products differentiated them as British Sturtevant products.
1944 Company made public.
1946 The whole of the share capital was made available for purchase[1]
1960 Acquired Mancuna Engineering.[2]
1961 Mechanical and electrical engineers, manufacturing fans of all types, including plants for air conditioning, heating, ventilating, drying, fume removal, vacuum cleaning, electrostatic precipitation, crushing and grinding. [3]
1965 Drake and Gorham, Scull acquired Sturtevant Engineering Co[4]; Sturtevant was reorganized into two separate companies with the air-conditioning, ventilating and process heating activities transferred to a new company, Sturtevant Air Treatment Ltd.
1972 The vacuum business was merged with another vacuum company, New Welbeck to form Sturtevant Welbeck [5]
1975 The flue gas cleaning business was sold to Peabody International Corporation., becoming a new subsidiary, Sturtevant Gas Cleaning Ltd.
1976 The agricultural division, based in Ipswich was acquired by management and renamed Sturtevant-Roote Ltd. They designed and installed process machinery for the feed, food and malt trades. The business was dissolved around 1998.
1978 Company was reorganized into Sturtevant Engineering Holdings Ltd and Sturtevant Welbeck[6]
Shortly afterwards Sturtevant Welbeck was split into separate divisions: Sturtevant Engineering & Manufacturing Ltd. (portable vacuums) and Sturtevant Systems Ltd. (fixed vacuum systems).[7]
1983 Christy Turner Ltd. acquired Sturtevant Engineering Holdings.
1984 The industrial fan division was sold to Matthews and Yates Ltd.
1994 Both vacuum divisions were sold to the Scotland-based Clyde Blowers, formerly a small blower company that was transformed into an industrial investment firm after a management buyout in 1992, and renamed Clyde Sturtevant. Eventually assets were transferred to Clyde Material Handling Ltd.[8], which organized a new Sturtevant vacuum division in South Yorkshire.
Clyde Process Solutions was bought by the Schenck Process group.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, March 4, 1946
- ↑ The Times, Jul 02, 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times 18 August 1966
- ↑ http://www.sturtevantfan.com
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