Clifton and Baird
Clifton and Baird of Mary Street, Johnstone were makers of machine tools.
1908 Charles Henry Clifton withdrew from the firm of Clifton and Waddell and commenced in business with James Baird at the Empress Works as machine tool makers under the name of Clifton & Baird.[1]
1911 Clifton and Baird Limited, Empress Works, Johnstone, was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £15,000, to acquire the business hitherto carried on by Clifton & Baird, engineers.[2]
1912 Patent. Clifton & Baird. Ltd., and Charles Henry Clifton, machines for cutting metal bars ot the like.[3]
1914 Patent. Charles Henry Clifton, chucking arrangement for slicing machine.[4]
1914 Fire at the two-storey works.[5]
1915 Patent. Clifton & Baird. Ltd., and Charles Henry Clifton, machines for cutting off lengths from bars, billets, tubes, and the like.[6]
1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a new machine for use in steel foundries for cutting off flush the risers or headers of castings.[7]
1968 Face milling machine.[8]
2002 The company went into liquidation.[9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/12060/page/865
- ↑ The Scotsman 25 November 1911
- ↑ Belfast News-Letter - Monday 15 July 1912
- ↑ Belfast News-Letter - Monday 12 January 1914
- ↑ Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 16 February 1914
- ↑ Belfast News-Letter - Monday 09 August 1915
- ↑ * The Engineer 1920/09/179
- ↑ * The Engineer 1968/07/05
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/E-25328-2432-82