Harland Engineering Co
of 196 Greengate, Salford, Canal Road, Timperley, and Alloa
1903 Partnership founded by Frederick Carleton Anderson, Charles Atherton Atchley and George Robert Harland Bowden, electrical engineers in London, and at Manchester, Glasgow and South Wales, as G. Harland Bowden and Co
1910 The partnership was dissolved by mutual consent; G. Harland Bowden would continue the business in London; Anderson and Atchley would continue the business in partnership in Manchester and Glasgow as Harland Engineering Co[1]
1919 Private company
1930 Three phase oil circuit breaker by Harland Engineering Co Ltd, Greengate-street, Manchester[2]
1937 Manufacturers of centrifugal pumps, electric motors, dynamos and switchgear. "Axiglide" Propeller Pumps. "Duoglide" Centrifugal Pumps. "Monoglide" Centrifugal Pumps. "Spiroglide" Centrifugal Pumps.[3]
1938 British Electric Plant Co was voluntarily liquidated; all of the assets of the business were acquired by Harland Engineering Co[4]
1938 Company made public.
1954 Works reopening.
CLOSED down earlier this year when its owners decided to concentrate production at their Midlands works, a Timperley (Cheshire) engineering factory is to reopen next year under new ownership. Meldrum's Works, Timperley, has been bought by Harland Engineering, of Manchester and Alloa, Scotland. Makers of pumps, water-turbines, and electrical machinery. Harland's Salford depot will eventually close and all workers there move to Timperley, where the plant will eventually be used for active production.'[5]
1957 Harland Engineering and Harland Drives acquired a controlling interest in Simon Equipment after a successful collaboration between the companies on development of electronic controls for industrial drives[6]
1961 Manufacturers of electrical machinery, centrifugal pumps, water turbines, industrial drives and other products. 1,300 employees.[7]
1969 Acquired by G. and J. Weir[8]
1970 The Timperley works was taken over by the Metal Box Co.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette, 26 July 1910
- ↑ Engineering 1930/04/25
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette, 8 April 1938
- ↑ Manchester Evening News - 9 November 1954
- ↑ The Times, Jul 26, 1957
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, May 06, 1969