James Spencer and Co
of Chamber Iron Works, Hollinwood, near Manchester.
1860 Company established.
1900 Supplied a 10 ton travelling crane for the Gloucester electricity supply works.[1]
1900 Lathe for turning railway axles for the East India Railway described and illustrated in the American Machinist [2]
1905 Advert. Makers of advanced types of labour-saving machine tools. [3]
1914 Manufacturers of machine tools, cranes and weighing machines. Employees 300. [4]
1917 Advert. Machine tools of all types and travelling cranes. [5]
1923 Public company.
1961 Engineers, designers, contractors and manufacturers of elevating, conveying and storage plant. 700 employees.[6]
For information about Spencer's lathes, and numerous photographs of surviving examples, see lathes.co.uk entry.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 27th July 1900 p93
- ↑ [1] American Machinist, 10 May 1900
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1905. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p387
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p163
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE