Henry Berry and Co
of Croydon Works, Hunslet, Leeds. Maker of hydraulic presses, hydraulic riveting machines, hydraulic pressure pumps and various types of hydraulic machine tools.
1883 Company formed by Henry Berry
1885 Due to the development of the business, it was transferred to the Croydon Works.
1887 Additions to the factory
c.1888 John Richard Musgrave became a partner, having been an apprentice in the business.
1893 Dissolution of the Partnership between Henry Berry, of Hunslet, Machine Maker, and John Richard Musgrave, formerly of Otley, but now of Newlay, Horsforth, Machine Maker, carrying on business as Machine Makers, at Croydon Works, Hunslet, under the style or firm of Henry Berry and Company. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Henry Berry.[1]
1896 Additions to the factory
1898 The company was registered on 8 December, to take over the business of the firm of the same name, hydraulic machinery manufacturers. [2]
1900 Additions to the factory.
1911 Manufacturer of Accumulators; Cranes and Lifts for the Railways.[3]
1914 Additions to the factory
1916 Additions to the factory
1919 Additions to the factory
1920 Opened a London office. [4]
1923 Opened an office in Central House, 75, New-street, Birmingham.[5]
1924 The present paper deals with a number of experiments carried out on a manufacturing scale with a
press designed to extrude by the new method.
The Press.— An extrusion plant was required by the Indian Government factories, and, after making
enquiries in various directions, the Ordnance Consulting Officer for India, Colonel Lawrence-Archer, recommended the adoption of the inverted process. The design and construction of the press were undertaken by Messrs. Henry Berry and Co., of Leeds,
who first made as detailed a survey as possible of the extrusion methods in use in this country, satisfying
themselves that a large proportion of discard was inevitable in the ordinary process, and that the pioneer
task of making the first inverted horizontal press was likely to be justified by the possibilities of the new
method. The press specified was one of 900 tons power at 1 1/2 tons per square inch hydraulic working pressure,
suitable for the extrusion of lead-free brass, and other alloys, to rod of diameters up to 2 1/4 in. The bore of
the receiver was 6 3/4 in. in diameter and 27 in. in length,
allowing the use of a billet 6 5/8 in. in diameter and 24 in.
in length. In view of the experimental nature of
the press, a working test was imposed requiring the
successful extrusion of five billets of 60 : 40 lead-free
brass to 1 in. diameter rod. .....'[6]
1926 Received an order for twenty sets of special high-pressure three-throw horizontal hydraulic pumps from Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates.[7]
1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history. The Managing Director was Major W. Berry, a nephew of the founder.
1960 Advert. Horizontal bending presses. [8]
1968 Part of the Brockhouse Group
2003 Acquired by Group Rhodes
- Triplex hydraulic ram pump. Exhibit at Armley Mill Museum
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ London Gazette 3 October 1893
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911
- ↑ The Engineer of 12th March 1920 p284
- ↑ The Engineer 1923/05/18
- ↑ Engineering 1924/09/12: THE EXTRUSION OE BRASS ROD BY THE INVERTED PROCESS. By R. Genders, M.B.E., M.Met., F.I.C., Member. (Communication from the Research Department, Woolwich.)
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/09/03
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1960. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p123