Allen-Liversidge
of 106 Victoria St., Westminster, SW1, manufacturer and supplier of acetylene equipment for lighting, heating, cutting, welding.
Premises at North Circular Road, Cricklewood[1]
1908 Business established. Demonstrated its front-wheel brake system for cars at the Humber Co's garage in London[2]; system promoted by the Allen-Liversidge Front Wheel Brakes Co[3]
Built the Imperial direct-coupled lighting sets. Engines may have been bought in from Russell Newbury [4]
1910 The Allen-Liversidge Company was incorporated
1910 Agent was Lloyd and Plaister (see advert)
1913 The Allen-Liversidge Portable Acetylene Co advertised its self-contained generators and lamps.[5]
1916 The company acquired A-L Meteorlite Ltd and The Allen Company Ltd.
1919 Public issue of shares[6]
1920 Agents were J. Liversidge and Son of Old Kent Road (see advert)
1920 Amalgamated with the Dissolved Acetylene Co Ltd and the Imperial Light Ltd; E. W. Sprott of Imperial Light Co became one of the MDs.[7]
1922 Joint Managing Directors: T. G. Allen, P. B. Liversidge and E. W. Sprott.
1922 Amalgamated with the Dissolved Acetylene Co (see advert)
1926 4th July. C. S. Gilman (Chairman) died in his sleep.
1926 Exhibiting welding appliances
1926 Major Sir Cooper-Key elected to the board.[8]
1926 November. Henry Stevenson was chairman.[9]
1929 Patent on "Oxyacetylene and similar heating burner" invented by Arthur Stephenson
1929 Patent with Arthur Stephenson on "Improvements in or relating to oxy-acetylene and similar heating burners"
1930 Became part of the British Oxygen Co
1933 Company in liquidation[10]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Sell's Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1933, Page 6
- ↑ The Times Oct. 30, 1908
- ↑ The Times Nov. 21, 1908
- ↑ A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5
- ↑ The Times Dec. 1, 1913
- ↑ The Times Apr. 14, 1919
- ↑ The Times Nov. 5, 1920
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/09/10
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/11/12
- ↑ The London Gazette 20 October 1933