Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Butterfield and Co

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F. and J. Butterfield and Co of Keighley

Partners were Francis Butterfield and John Butterfield

Machine tool makers of Keighley.

formerly Croft, Butterfields and Wilkinson

1885 F. and J. Butterfield and Company Limited, Midland Tool Works, Keighley, was registered, with capital of £80,000.[1]

1886 Clyde Locomotive Co: machine for grinding the slots of case-hardened links for locomotive valve gear [2]

1889 F. and J . Butterfield and Co. issued a catalogue covering lathes, screwing machines and accessories, drilling and boring machines, planing, shaping, and slotting machines, milling and wheel cutting, punching, bending, forging, and other machinery.

1893 The decision was made to wind up the company, owing chiefly to the depressed condition of the machine tool trade.[3]

Made a special horizontal boring and facing machine for centrifugal pump casings for J. and H. Gwynne.[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. Leeds Times 24 October 1885
  2. Engineering 1886/01/15
  3. Armley and Wortley News 6 October 1893
  4. [1] The Engineer, 6 April 1894, p.284
  • The National Archives BT 31/3548/21676