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Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co

From Graces Guide
Exhibit at Beamish Museum.
1893. 10-Ton Pillar Crane: 1893 Chicago International Exhibition.

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1907.
1950.
March 1958.

1868 Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co. were established in October 1868 at Stamford, Connecticut, USA by Linus Yale (junior) and Henry R. Towne, a spin off of the famous lock company founded by Linus Yale (junior) in 1864.

1875 Started producing materials handling equipment

1883 Albert H. Emery patented testing machines, dynamometers, etc[1] on behalf of a subsidiary of the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co of Stamford, Conn, USA.

1885 Gold medal for invention in respect of locks.

1904 British subsidiary, Yale and Towne Co, was established

1909 US licensees of the differential pulley block invented by Thomas A. Weston[2]

1929 Yale and Towne Co started operating in the Midlands

c1936 Established their materials handling division in Waddens Brook Lane, Wednesfield, becoming one of nine factories located across the country.

1963 Eaton Manufacturing Co of Cleveland, USA acquired Yale and Towne

1966 Yale and Towne and Eaton Manufacturing merged into one corporation to form Eaton Yale and Towne Incorporated. [3]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1883/08/24
  2. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, May 26, 1909
  3. The Times, Apr 20, 1966
  • [1] Black Country history