Wadkin and Co
of North Evington, Leicester, manufacturer of machinery for wood-working.
1897 Company founded. See Joseph Holland Goddard
1910 Maker of Polyrhoe Carburetters.
1922 Employees: 150. Principals J. W. Goddard, J. H. Goddard.
1935 Private company.
1935 Name changed to Wadkin Ltd[1]
1937 Woodworking machinery [2]
1951 Company made public.
1961 Manufacturers of woodworking machinery and high speed machine tools. Producers of the "Wadkin" and "Wadkin-Bursgreen" ranges of industrial woodworking machinery. One of the largest manufacturers of high-speed wood-working machinery in the world. 1,000 employees. [3]
1968 Announce new NC milling machine [4]
1972 Received support for a project on a timber end-jointer from government programme for the machine tool industry [5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Mar. 13, 1951
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer 1968/07/05 p30
- ↑ The Times, Mar 15, 1972