B. and S. Massey
B & S Massey's steam hammers of Openshaw, Manchester.
1860 Company founded by Benjamin Massey and Stephen Massey.
1869 Advert. Steam hammers. [1]
1889 Patent compound steam forging press. [2]
1900 Tire Hammer for railway Wheels. Article and Illustration in The Engineer. [3]
1911 Expansion Valve Gear for Steam Hammers. [4]
1912 Became private company.
1915: 'BELGIAN KILLED AT ENGINEERING WORKS. A verdict of accidental death was returned an inquest held by the City Deputy Coroner (Mr. C. W. W. Surridge), today, on a Belgian named Nicholas Fastre (47), of Old Lane, Higher Openshaw, who was killed at Messrs. B. and S. Massey Ltd., engineers, of Openshaw. Fastre and another Belgian were engaged Wednesday in removing a steam hammer weighing about 2½ tons when the hammer fell forward and dropped on Fastre. It was stated by Mr. Leonard Massey, director of the firm that they employed large numbers of men, and this was only the third fatality at the works in fifty years.'[5]
1920 April. Issued catalogue on steam hammers. [6]
1924 Illustrated description of Massey's machine made for rolling the retaining rings for wheels for London Underground Railway trains at the Acton car repair shops [7]
1946 Became public company.
1961 Engineers, manufacturing pneumatic and steam hammers, drop stamps, forging presses, screw presses, furnaces and tyre fixing rolls for railway locomotives and wagons. [8]
1965 Acquired Joshua Bigwood and Son.[9]
1968 Hydrostamp machine for dies installed at Ruston and Hornsby. [10]
1972 Acquired by Head, Wrightson and Co.[11]
1972 Received support for a project on a hydrostamp press, from government programme for the machine tool industry [12]
Note: Steam Hammer exhibited at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1869
- ↑ The Engineer 1889/05/31 p468
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/09/21 p300
- ↑ The Engineer 1911/08/25 p211
- ↑ Manchester Evening News, 15th October 1915
- ↑ The Engineer 1920/04/30 p458
- ↑ Engineering 1924/02/22
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star - 30 October 1965
- ↑ The Engineer 1968/08/06 p362
- ↑ The Scotsman - 08 January 1972
- ↑ The Times, Mar 15, 1972