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.
1896 Reedhams patent ventilator - The Victor Air Extractor. [3]
1901 Railway Buffer Manufacturers. [4]
1910 Private company. Purchased by George H. Cowen.
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. [5]
1920 Company made public.
1937 Manufacturers of aero engine crank cases, cylinder liners and stampings. [6]
1961 Manufacturers of railway and dock buffers, rail fastenings, drop stampings and heavy coil springs. [7]
By 1987 was owned by Aurora Holdings