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Bruntons (Sudbury)

From Graces Guide
October 1936.
October 1937.
October 1938.

Bruntons (Sudbury, 1919) Ltd, of Stour Valley Ironworks, Sudbury, Suffolk.

Successors to Brunton's Ltd of the same address

1868 Business established (see advert)[1] as Barton and Stearn.

1922 Exhibitors at the 1922 Marine and Small Craft Exhibition.[2]

Maker of ship's propellers, steering gear and non-ferrous castings

1925 BRUNTONS (Sudbury 1919) Limited, Stour Valley Ironworks. Managing Director : Major A. L. YOUNG, M.N.E.C. Inst, A.M I.E.S.[3]

By 1959 was a subsidiary of Stone-Platt Industries[4]:

1986 The largest propeller ever cast in Bruntons Propellers' Sudbury foundry was removed from the mould this week. The three metre diametre four-bladed propeller was specially designed for quiet running on a fisheries research ...[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. Suffolk and Essex Free Press 26 October 1921
  2. The Engineer 1922/11/24
  3. Suffolk and Essex Free Press 08 January 1925
  4. The Times June 3, 1959
  5. Suffolk and Essex Free Press 10 April 1986