Turbine Gears
of Cheadle Heath, Stockport, Cheshire. Telephone: Gatley 3621 (9 lines). Telegraphic Address: "Reform, Stockport"
1912 Company established.
1918 Patent - Improvements in and connected with Toothed Gearing. [1]
1931 'Messrs. Henry Simon, Limited, Cheadle Heath, Stockport, have taken over the business carried on for many years by Messrs. Turbine Gears, Limited, Hyde, and, in future, the manufacture of double-helical and other gears will be undertaken at Messrs. Simon’s works at Cheadle Heath, to which the technical and designing staffs and also the gear-cutting machinery have been transferred from the Hyde works. A new company has been formed and the trading activities of the gearing section will be carried on as Messrs. Turbine Gears, Limited (Subsidiary of Henry Simon (Engineering Works), Limited) ; all communications should be addressed to Cheadle Heath, Stockport.[2]
1933 The company was liquidated. The Gear Works, Mottram Road, Hyde, and its contents were sold by public auction. Henry Simon purchased the remaining goodwill of the company and moved production to Cheadle Heath, Stockport.[3]
1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Double Helical High Efficiency Gear Units; Gears with Straight or Single Helical Teeth. Complete Gear Trains; Worm Wheels and Bevels; Bevel Gear Cutting Machines; Worm Wheel Generators; Flexible Couplings. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.611) [4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Wikipatents
- ↑ Engineering 1931/11/20
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 20 May 1933
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Advert p655; and p426