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James Archdale and Co of Ledsam Street, Birmingham were makers of machine tools
1868 Company established by James Archdale
1888 Machine tools. Gun making and Cartridge Drawing Machinery a speciality. [1]
1902 Private company.
1911 High Speed 3'6" Radial Drilling Machines. [2]
1911 Catalogue of machine tools including capstan lathes, engine lathes and screwing machines.
1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: machine tools for locomotive, electrical and general engineers, high-speed drilling machines, radial and vertical lathes, capstan lathes, milling machines. Employees 600.[3]
1920 Centralised Control Radial Drilling Machine. [4]
1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with milling machiness and centrlised control radial drilling machines [5]
1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history
1949 Public company.
1953 Acquired by Staveley Coal and Iron Co [6], including the whole of the share capital of the Cunliffe and Croom Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary.
1961 Machine tool manufacturers. [7]
1968 Staveley's rationalised its machine tool division including moving radial drill manufacture to Asquith at Halifax; the design and manufacture of transfer equipment was concentrated at Archdale[8]
1968 NC Vertical milling machine. Of Worcester. [9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- ↑ The Engineer of 3rd February 1888 p101
- ↑ The Engineer of 25th August 1911 p218 & p319
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 19th Mar 1920 p303
- ↑ The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p244
- ↑ The Times, 16 December 1953
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Feb 20, 1968
- ↑ The Engineer of 5th July 1968 p30