Clayton, Son and Co
of Providence works, Belinda street, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorks (1870)
and of Pepper Road, Hunslet, Leeds (1909)
1857 Leonard Clayton was a boiler maker in Lancashire
1862 Leeds City Boiler Works was founded.(see advert)
1864 Clayton, Son and Co was established in Hunslet by Leonard Clayton and his son Lawrence Clayton.
1886 Incorporated as a Limited Company
1886 Private company.
1890 Description and drawings of a three-lift gasholder. An addition was made to the gasholder capacity at Dawsholm Works by adding a third lift to one of the existing gasholders. The work was executed by Clayton, Son, and Co of Hunslet. The total height was slightly over 125 ft., including the depth of the tank, which was 30 ft. under the ground level. The depth of each of the lifts was about 30 ft. The diameter of the tank was 103 ft., while the diameters of the outer, middle, and inner lifts of the gasholder were respectively 160 ft., 157 ft. 8 1/4 in., and 154 ft. 6 3/4 in. The original framing consisted of sixteen cast-iron columns 65 ft. high, 3ft. in diameter at bottom, tapering to 2ft. 6in. at top, tied together at top by lattice girders, and having guide runs bolted by distance brackets to the inner side of columns. These columns had to be heightened to the extent of 30 ft. W. Foulis was the engineer.[1]
1891 Advert. Gasholders. [2]
1914 Gasholder and Boiler Manufacturers. Specialities: Gasholders chief feature, Boilers of every description, Structural Work, Welded Steel Mains for Water Works, etc. Employees 800. [3]
1914 Directors: Lawrence Clayton, J.P. (Managing Director), Joseph Clayton, John R. Pickering, and John J. Baines.
1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.
1961 Gas and constructional engineers manufacturing gas holders, gas plant, storage and oil tanks, steel pipes, steam boilers, steel chimneys, screening and conveying plant, rectification and distillation plant and structural steel works. 500 employees.[4]
1986 Acquired Fielding and Platt from the receivers
1991 Maker of bulk storage, pressure vessels, pipes, presses and machinery, fell into a loss[5]
1994 Motherwell Bridge Group acquired Clayton Group
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1890/03/07
- ↑ 1891 Post Office London Trades Directory
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Saturday, October 26, 1991