West's Gas Improvement Co
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1894. Air compressor for Manchester Gas Works.
West's Gas Improvement Company of Albion Iron Works, Miles Platting, Manchester.
1874 Company founded by John West.
1894 Private company incorporated to acquire a company of similar name concerned with the manufacture, improvement, storage, etc of gas.
1894 Air Compressor for Manchester Gas Works with valve gear. [1]
1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.
1934 Coke handling plant for Beckton Gasworks [2]
1935 See West's Gas Improvement Co:1935 Review.
1935 Subsidiaries included the Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Co, and West's Rotinoff Piling and Construction Co.[3]
1952 All types of gas plant[4]
1959 Re-registered as the Holding Company of the WGI Group.
1961 Gas engineers. [5]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 18th May 1894 p424
- ↑ Engineering 1934/04/06
- ↑ The Times, October 18, 1935
- ↑ [1] Historic England
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE