Charles Roberts and Co
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of Horbury Junction, near Wakefield
1856 Company established.
1899 The company was registered on 13 April, to acquire the business of wagon manufacturers of a company of the same name. [1]
1913 One of 15 established companies involved in manufacture and hiring-out of railway rolling stock[2]
1914 Builders of railway wagons of all descriptions, steel hopper wagons, railway tank wagons, manufacturers of wheels and axles, ironwork, castings; railway wagon repairers. [3]
1939 Duncan Bailey was chairman and managing director.
1958 Acquired Hurst, Nelson and Co.
1967 Kirkstall Forge Engineering acquired the pressed axle casing business of Charles Roberts and Co of Wakefield [4]
1973 Charles Roberts and Co agreed to acquire from Butterfield-Harvey Group the assets and undertaking (apart from property) of W. P. Butterfield (Engineers) of Shipley to make a major force in the road tanker industry[5]
1974 Sold the railway-wagon-making part of the business, of Horbury Works, Wakefield, to Procor (UK); would use the funds received to pay down debt and expand the manufacturing part of the group.[6]