Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,675 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

John Spencer and Co

From Graces Guide
Radial arm drilling machine at the Charles Burrell Museum
2022. Images taken at the Porth-y-Nant Quarry. Lathe by John Spencer and Co.
2022. Images taken at the Porth-y-Nant Quarry.
Shaping machine on display at the Museum of Bath at Work

of Atlas Works, Keighley. Mechanical Engineers

Established 1866.

formerly Dean, Spencer and Co

See John Spencer (1840-1910)

1873 JOHN SPENCER and Co. (late Dean, Spencer, and Co.), MANUFACTURERS of all kinds of ENGINEERS' TOOLS, have on hand and in progress, LATHES, PLANING, SHAPING, SLOTTING, SCREWING, and DRILLING MACHINES, all on the most improved principle. Address JOHN SPENCER and CO., ATLAS WORKS, KEIGHLEY, YORKSHIRE.[1]

1908 Incorporated as a Limited Co.

1922 Specialists in power hammers and keyway cutting machines.

1930 Atlas Works put up for sale by order of the Receiver.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. South Wales Daily News - Tuesday 16 December 1873
  2. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 03 May 1930