Pickerings
Pickerings of Globe Works, Stockton-on-Tees.
1854 Company established.
1871 JONATHAN PICKERING, Engineer and Ironfounder, Globe Works, Stockton-on-Tees.[1]
1876 Jonathan Pickering exhibited a direct-acting steam pump at the Philadelphia Exhibition, and also his patent hoist and patent differential pulley block which used by the British Commission in lifting the heavy articles at the exhibition.
1876 Self-acting lubricators [2]
1882 Jonathan Pickering of Globe Works, Stockton-on-Tees, [3]
1887 Incorporated as a Limited Co.
1888 UK's first commercial electric lift designed, manufactured and installed.
1892 Death of founder Jonathan Pickering. Jonathan Fothergill becomes Managing Director.
1896 Invented the world’s first push-button lift.
1922 Mechanical, Electrical and Hydraulic Engineers. Specialities: Electric, hydraulic and hand-power lifts, electric cranes, hauling gears, winches, runways self-landing and delivering hoists, etc.
1938 Installs lifts in RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner/cruise ship, of the Cunard Line.
1941 New 10,000 sq ft workshop built to enable the production of floating pontoon bridges.
1991 Pickerings were suppliers of lifts[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser - Saturday 23 December 1871
- ↑ The Engineer 1876/09/01 p145
- ↑ The Engineer 1882/07/21
- ↑ The Times, December 5, 1991