George Turton, Platts and Co
George Turton, Platts and Co of Savile Street, Sheffield; of Meadowhall Road, Wincobank, Sheffield.
1882 Company established by George Turton.
1888 Turton's Improved Railway Buffer. (George Turton of the Patent Buffer, Steel and File Works at Sheffield) [1]
1891 Advert. As George Turton. [2]
1891 William Platts joined the firm.
1894 Partnership dissolved, company continued by William Platts.
“NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, George Turton and William Platts, in the businesses of Manufacturers of Patent and Other Buffers and Steel and File Manufacturers, carried on by us in the city of Sheffield, under the style of George Turton, Platts, and Co., has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as from the 30th of January, 1894. All debts due to and owing by the late firm will be received and paid by the said William Platts, by whom the said businesses will in future be carried on his own account, and under the said style of George Turton, Platts, and Co.—Dated this 12th day of March, 1894.” [3]
1896 Reedhams patent ventilator - The Victor Air Extractor. [4]
1901 Railway Buffer Manufacturers. [5]
1908 - Death of William Platts
1910 Private limited company registered. Purchased by George H. Cowen.
"GEORGE TURTON, PLATTS, AND CO., LTD. [6] This company has just been registered with a capital of £45,000 in £1 shares (15,000 Preferred), to carry on the business of manufacturers of springs, buffers, couplings, rail fastenings, draw gears, and other apparatus used in connection with railways or traction, etc, to acquire the business carried on at Savile street and Furnival road, Sheffield, as George Turton, Platts, and Co., and to adopt an agreement with G. H. Cowen. The subscribers are:— Ordinary Shares.
G. H. Cowen, Tynedale, Carsick View road, Sheffield. manufacturer ... 1
W. H. Simmons, 16, Holland place, Sheffield, cashier ...1
Private company. The number of directors is not to be less than 3 nor more than 7. The first are G. H. Cowen, J. E. Grifiths, W. McKinnel, and F. M Osborn. Qualification £l,OOO. Remuneration (except managing director) £5O each per annum. So long as Samuel Osborn and Co., Ltd, hold £7,500 shares they may nominate two directors, W. McKinnel F. M. Osborn being the first nominees. Registered office: Railway Buffer. Steel Spring, and File Works, Savile street, Sheffield."
1914 Manufacturers of railway buffers, springs, drawgear etc. Specialities: railway buffers for locos, carriages and wagons on Platts-Turton patent and Matthews' patent, ordinary buffers of all kinds, spiral and volute springs of all sizes up to fifty tons resistance, Platts-Turton patent ribbed section volute springs, Cowen's patent equal temper spiral springs, Rees and Moreton's patent flexible drawgear, Stuart's patent lock-fast rail key, Eros ventilators for railway carriages. [7]
1920 Company made public.
1937 Manufacturers of aero engine crank cases, cylinder liners and stampings. [8]
1961 Manufacturers of railway and dock buffers, rail fastenings, drop stampings and heavy coil springs. [9]
By 1987 was owned by Aurora Holdings
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 20th January 1888 p43
- ↑ 1891 Post Office London Trades Directory
- ↑ The London Gazette 1 May 1894
- ↑ The Engineer 1896/08/14
- ↑ White's Directory of Sheffield and Rotherham, 1901 p979
- ↑ Sheffield Independent - 28 Feb 1910
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE