Palmer's Travelling Cradle and Scaffold Co

1918.

November 1957.

of Victoria Works, Belvedere Road, London, SE

of Woodside Green, London

of Eastleigh

1875 Company established.

1880 Company founded.

1913-14 Carried out contracts including the erection of seven wireless station masts in Ireland, steel mast 500 ft at Ballybunion, Co. Kerry; removed and refixed the hands of "Big Ben" Westminster; repainted the footways of Tower Bridge; redecorated the vast ceiling of the Royal Albert Hall; transformed Olympia for "The Miracle" by means of their cradles, 160 being in use for three weeks, framing up all steelwork to support plaster, the whole interior representing a vast cathedral. Palmers' cradles were also used for the erection of the Royal Liver Building, Pier Head, Liverpool, the main cornice 140 feet above pavement level.

1914 Scaffolding experts. Specialities: suspended scaffolds and stages, special steel wire scaffold lashings; manufacture extension ladders and towers, ladders, barrows, steps, trestles and builders' plant generally; Scaffixer chair scaffold tie. Undertake repairs to buildings inside and out by means of the wire-supported travelling cradle, raised or lowered by the men in the cradles without assistance.

1919 Private company incorporated

1947 One of a group of companies in the building, contracting and ancillary trades acquired by Thomas Tilling:

1961 Scaffolding contractors; manufacturers of permanent building external maintenance equipment, "Palmatic" electric cradle. 250 employees.

1967 Name changed to Palmers Scaffolding Co Ltd

1983 BTR Industries acquired Thomas Tilling

1994 Part of Pascon group when it left the BTR group

1996 Name changed to Palmers Ltd

2007 Name changed to ThyssenKrupp Palmers Ltd

2012 Name changed to Xervon Palmers Ltd

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