Hulse and Co
Hulse and Co of Salford, Manchester.
Also known as J. S. Hulse and Co
1852 Firm founded by JosepTh Sykes Hulse.
1863 Listed as Joseph Sykes Hulse, Engineer and manufacturer of all kinds of engineers' tools, &c., Ordsal Works, Calder Street, Salford[1]
1881 J. S. Hulse retired and his brother William Wilson Hulse took charge.
1887 Brief description and illustration of self-acting cutting and dividing machine[2]
1887 Newcastle Exhibition: Engraving and description of hollow spindle capstan lathe for turning, screwing, and finishing studs, pins, etc, from 3/8 in. up to 1 1/2 in. in diameter out of long bars. The bars are passed through the spindle which is fitted with collets for gripping them.[3]
1889 Brief description and engraving of drilling machine shown at the Paris Exhibition.[4]
Pre-1894 Lathe with 6' 6" dia faceplate and taking 14 ft between centres installed at J. I. Thornycroft's yard at Chiswick [5]
1893 Vertical milling machine described and illustrated. Made 'for a leading railway company in the south of England, for machining locomotive cylinder valve faces and ports. A special attachment could be fitted for milling at right angles to the spindle axis, for dealing with inside cylinders when cast in one, with the slide valves in between.' The special apparatus was designed by W. F. Pettigrew, of the London and South-Western Railway Co[6]
1894 Davies' Plural drilling machine for locomotive boilers. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'
1894 The works were visited by members of the IMechE, and aspects of the equipment and products were described in Engineering 1894/07/27.
1894 Quadruple-geared duplex crank lathe for William Jessop and Son. Illustration.
1896 Hulse open-sided planing machine featured in the American Machinist, who credited the origin of the type to Richards of Manchester, but William Wilson Hulse wrote to the magazine to point out that he had patented it on 9 June 1865 (Pat. No. 1571) [7]
1897 Machine for cutting bevel and worm gears, using a shaping-machine type of action [8]
1897 Summary and drawings relating to Patent No. 28,418. W. W. Wulse, side planing machine, December 11, 1896. [9]
1900 Article and illustrations on their Belleville Boiler-Making Machinery
1906 'A LARGE LATHE. An exceptionally large and heavy lathe, believed to be the largest ever built in this country, has recently been manufactured by Messrs Hulse and Co., Limited, Manchester. It has been rendered necessary by the introduction of the steam turbine for the purpose of marine propulsion, on account the great size of the motors [rotors] now coming into vogue, and probably represents finality in the direction of the capacity of this type of machine. It will admit work up to 16 feet diameter over the sliding carriages, and 50 feet in length between centres, but work up to 18 feet diameter may be dealt with the face plate for surfacing and boring purposes. The bed is a very strong section, being 18 feet wide by 68½ feet long. The machine is worked from platforms, and self-contained short ladders are necessary to enable the operator to mount the platform from the level of the bed.'[10]
1906 'A 200-TON LATHE. Messrs. Hulse and Co., Limited, Ordsal Works, Salford, have just completed, to the order of Messrs. John Brown, Limited, Sheffield, a large lathe for very heavy cutting in connection with the manufacture of rotors for steam turbines of the largest class. The height of centres of the lathe in question is 84in., and although the bed is short, the weight of the lathe — about 200 tons — will give an idea of its exceptional strength.'[11]
1911 Lathe for turning large turbine drums up to 13 ft 4" diameter, 40 ft 6" long built for the Darlington Forge Co.[12]. See photo.
1912 Description of an extension to their premises in The Engineer, which included two large new erecting shops [13]
1920 Large Crank-Shaft Turning Machine
1920 Were suppliers of machine tools
Hulse's Ordsall (Ordsal) Works was originally bounded by the River Irwell, Calder Street, Lower Seddon Street and the Regent Iron Works of Thomas Gadd. In c.1895 they took over the premises of the Regent Iron Works, which faced onto Regent Road.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Slater's Directory of Manchester and Salford, 1863
- ↑ Engineering 1887/06/17
- ↑ Engineering 1887/09/02
- ↑ Engineering 1889/08/16
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 23rd February 1894
- ↑ Engineering 1893/06/02
- ↑ [1] American Machinist, 26 November 1896, p.1111
- ↑ Engineering 1897/03/26, pp.403-4
- ↑ Engineering 1897/12/24
- ↑ Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 27 June 1906
- ↑ Southport Guardian - Saturday 10 November 1906
- ↑ [2] The Engineer, 1 Sept 1911
- ↑ The Engineer 1912/08/02
- The Engineer of 31st August 1894 p190
- The Engineer of 1st June 1894 p480 & p484
- The Engineer of 28th December 1900 p643
- The Engineer of 1st October 1920 p340
- The Engineer of 2nd April 1920 p352 & p358
- The Engineer of 1st September 1911 p240