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Revision as of 12:13, 19 February 2016
Kendall and Gent Machine tool makers, originally of Victoria Works, Springfield, Salford. In the 1890s they moved to a new works, also called Victoria Works in Gorton, Manchester.
1849 Company established.
1873 (1 volume; in German) Illustrated sales catalogue.
1876 Details of their screwing machine with releasing motion. [1]
1900 Plano-milling machine and others at the Paris exhibition. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'. [2]
1904 Incorporated as a limited company.
1911 Produced a Break Lathe; screwing machine.
1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: patent screwing and tapping machines, Dixon's patent radial drilling and tapping machines, milling machines, cutter grinding machines. [3]
1920 Public company.
1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with milling machines. [4]
1944 Name changed.
1960 The company built a massive 450 ton plano milling machine with a 70ft long bed for C. A. Parsons and Co. It was capable of machining components 35ft 6in long by 12ft wide and 9ft 6in high, weighing up to 100 tons. [5]
1961 Machine tool makers. [6]
1966 Acquired by Staveley Industries[7]
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Manchester Archives
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- ↑ The Engineer of 17th November 1876 p349
- ↑ The Engineer of 7th September 1900 p237
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 24th September 1920 p295
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th January 1960 p166
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Feb 21, 1967