Modern Machine Tools
Modern Machine Tools Ltd. of The Butts Works, Maudslay Road, Coventry.
1921 Company founded. ?
1928 New Companies Registered: 'Modern Machine Tools Ltd. — Capital £500 in £1 shares. Objects: To carry on the business of manufacturers and repairers of and dealers in machine-tools, machinery, motor cycles, cars, vehicles and carriages of all kinds engineers, machinists, &c. The first directors are H. Weston, 9 Queensland Avenue Coventry, engineer; P. A. Dingley, North Waste, Ide Hill, near Coventry, engineer.'[1]
In 1929 the firm was advertising for machine tool fitters. The address was Viaduct Works, Spon End, Coventry.[2].
By April 1930 the address was Butts Works, Coventry.
1930-39 Annual reports in Coventry Archives[3]
1938 The "Weston" Siphon Pump.
1953 Sold the freehold of its factory on Maudslay Road Coventry and moved to new premises nearer the city centre.[4]
1955 Acquired by Gas Purification and Chemical Co.[5]
1961 Manufacturers and dealers in machine tools. 100 employees. [6]
1962 Sold to B. Elliott and Co.[7]
1966 Factory moved from Coventry to Brookfield Road, Birmingham.[8]
See lathe.co.uk entry.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 10 November 1928
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 25 April 1929
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - 14 September 1954
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - 20 July 1955
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - 04 April 1962
- ↑ The Times Thursday, Sept. 29, 1966