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[[Image:JD_Boothroyd01.jpg|thumb|H T Boothroyd steam engine coupled to Phoenix Dynamo at [[Blists Hill Victorian Town]], Ironbridge Gorge]]
[[Image:JD_Boothroyd01.jpg|thumb| H. T. Boothroyd steam engine coupled to Phoenix Dynamo at [[Blists Hill Victorian Town]], Ironbridge Gorge]]


of Akenside Street, Bootle, Liverpool
of Akenside Street, Bootle, Liverpool
1899 Listed as H. T. Boothroyd and Co, Akenside street, Bootle, electrical engineers.<ref>Liverpool Mercury - Wednesday 06 December 1899</ref>
1908 The business was incorporated as H. T. Boothroyd Limited.<ref>The National Archives BT 31/18563/99742</ref>
1919 A new company was incorporated, [[H. T. Boothroyd (Port Glasgow)]] Limited, to take over the business of general electrical contracting in Scotland, and also the installing of electrical equipment on ships.
1922 Listed as Messrs. H. T. Boothroyds, electrical engineers, of Bootle.<ref>Liverpool Echo - Friday 31 August 1917</ref>
1929 In December, the company went into voluntary liquidation.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33567/page/93</ref>


Generator with [[Ruston and Hornsby]] engine. Exhibit at [[Anson Engine Museum]]
Generator with [[Ruston and Hornsby]] engine. Exhibit at [[Anson Engine Museum]]

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1921.
H. T. Boothroyd steam engine coupled to Phoenix Dynamo at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge

of Akenside Street, Bootle, Liverpool

1899 Listed as H. T. Boothroyd and Co, Akenside street, Bootle, electrical engineers.[1]

1908 The business was incorporated as H. T. Boothroyd Limited.[2]

1919 A new company was incorporated, H. T. Boothroyd (Port Glasgow) Limited, to take over the business of general electrical contracting in Scotland, and also the installing of electrical equipment on ships.

1922 Listed as Messrs. H. T. Boothroyds, electrical engineers, of Bootle.[3]

1929 In December, the company went into voluntary liquidation.[4]

Generator with Ruston and Hornsby engine. Exhibit at Anson Engine Museum

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Mercury - Wednesday 06 December 1899
  2. The National Archives BT 31/18563/99742
  3. Liverpool Echo - Friday 31 August 1917
  4. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33567/page/93