Hadley Engineering Co
1911 Share issue. Directors are George Herbert Sankey, Walter Wolseley and William Arthur Stevens. General manager is S. L. Brunton. Consulting engineers are Mordey and Dawbarn.[1] Company formed to acquire from Joseph Sankey and Sons, Thomas Tilling and W. A. Stevens and combine various manufacturing activities:[2]
- Manufacture of steel wheels and other body parts carried out by Sankeys
- Manufacture of Tilling-Stevens chassis for omnibus and mail vans carried out by Tillings
- Stevens patent electric transmission systems, carried out by Stevens.
1911 Hadley Engineering Co., Ltd. agreed to purchase from Joseph Sankey and Sons, Ltd., their freehold premises at ...[3]
Tilling-Stevens agreed that the construction of the (petrol-electric) vehicles be at Hadley by the Hadley Engineering Co. [4]
1911 "The Hadley Engineering Co. Ltd. ... did not go to allotment. The arrangements, therefore, which had been tentatively made with regard to the production of the new Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric chassis have had to be considerably modified. ... the production of this interesting model is now to take place at the works of W. A. Stevens, Ltd. and it is probable that Tillings will take a financial interest in this established concern at Maidstone. ... Newcastle Corporation has placed an order for four petrol-electric motorbuses of the Tilling-Stevens type. These machines will be used as feeders to the Corporation's existing tramways."[5]