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 164,585 pages of information and 246,144 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Dronsfield Brothers

From Graces Guide
1876.
1891. Makers of Grinding Machines.
1917. Card grinding machinery. Grinding machines for workers and strippers.
1917.
1938.
1958.
1967.
Name plate.

Dronsfield Brothers Ltd. of Atlas Works, Oldham, Lancashire. Telephone: Main (Oldham) 3857. Telegraphic Address: "Atlas, Oldham". (1937)

See Joseph Standring Dronsfield and William Dronsfield

1860 Company founded.

1920 Photograph here[1] showing two Dronsfield Bros lorries outside the Atlas Works, with their loads of milling(?) machines, and happy chauffers.

1922 Card grinding and roller covering machinery

1934 Patent x 2 - Improvements in and for use in connection with apparatus for milking cows.

1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Hand Lawn Mowers, 4 in 1 Turf Machine. Dairy Utensils. (Stand No. A.435)

1959 Private company.

1961 Textile machinery manufacturers and roll grinding machines for the paper trades. 300 employees.

1972 Order for a roll grinding machine received from India.[2]

1983 Receivers appointed.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Manchester City Council local images collection: image m61514, 1910
  2. The Times Oct 17, 1972