Acme Manufacturing Co
Engine makers, of Budhill, Shettleston, Glasgow
1888 Alexander Burt, as Burt and Co, built the Acme gas engine to patents held by Burt and McGhee[1]
1901 Alexander Burt became the Acme Manufacturing Co
1901 Listed as 'Acme Manufacturing Co, 153 Queen St.' under 'Machine Makers and Millwrights' and under 'Engineers'.[2]
1901 Building gas and oil engines rated from 2.5 to 40 bhp [3]
1902 Petitioned for Cessio against an ironmonger, A. C. Gilbert[4]
1903 Laundry Engineers (could this be connected with Acme Domestic Equipment?), Machine Makers[5]
1903 There also was an Acme Foundry Co, Gartocher Pl., Shettleston, Engineers[6]
1904 Acme Engine Co, at the same address, issued a catalogue.
1907 Listed as 'Acme Manufacturing Co Ltd, 34 John Street, city.' under 'Mangle Manufacturers'.[7]
1911 Messrs Joseph S. Burt, Thomas W. Burt, George P. Burt and J. W. Burt, trading as Acme Manufacturing Co, machine makers, petitioned for cessio against William Cameron of Dundee[8]
1919 Company in liquidation[9]
1921 Maker of Acme Wringers (see advert)
1922 Patent. 'Improvements in or relating to wringing machines. Peter Burt, Joseph Smith Burt, Thomas Wotherspoon Burt, George Peter Burt, John Wotherspoon Burt, May 17, 1923: GB197560-A. .... (trading as Acme Manufacturing Co.). June 8, 1922. Two-roller wringers, attaching to tables, tubs, &c.-A bracket, for clamping a wringer to a tub, Fig. 1, or table, Fig. 2, so that the rollers may be always vertically above...'[10]
Presumably later became Acme Wringers Ltd
By 1930, the Acme Works, Budhill, Shettleston, were occupied by The Glasgow Radiator Company[11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1904/12/09
- ↑ 1901/02 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1999. ISBN 1 873098 50 2
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 26 September 1902
- ↑ 1903-04 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ 1903-04 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ 1907/08 Post Office Directory of Glasgow
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 6 October 1911
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 21 November 1919
- ↑ Patent Maps
- ↑ Edinburgh Gazette 13 June 1930