H. W. Ward and Co of Lionel Street, Birmingham were makers of machine tools, especially lathes of all sorts.
1889 Company established.
1911 Manufacturer of Machine Tools for the Railways.[1]
1912 Decision to concentrate on the manufacture of capstan and turret lathes
1912 Four-Spindle Automatic Lathe. Acquired new factory in Bournbrook
1914 Equipped a complete factory for manufacture of motor cars[2]
Member of Associated British Machine Tool Makers.
1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a variety of lathes of capstan and turret types. [3]
1937 Machine tool manufacturers. [4]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
Lathe. Exhibit at Armley Mill Museum.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911
- ↑ The Times, Jan 28, 1914
- ↑ The Engineer of 24th September 1920 p293
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries