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Royce Ltd motors at Kidwelly Industrial Museum
Royce Ltd motor nameplate at Kidwelly Industrial Museum
Royce electric generator in the reserve collection at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry
DC generator providing power for a textile machine at Queen Street Mill Museum
1908. Glasgow Goods Yard with Royce crane.
1908. Glasgow Goods Yard with Royce crane.
1908. Glasgow Goods Yard with Royce crane.
1908 Royce crane, ex-Mirrlees, at Anson Engine Museum
Royce crane at the Lincoln works of Ruston, Proctor and Co. Photo on display at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2019

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1909.
1909. An electrically driven monorail crane made by Royce of Manchester and erected by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co.
1909.
1910.
Cooke Street works.
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1919. 15 HP DC Capstan winch, one of four installed to shunt rail wagons.
1919. 15 HP DC Capstan winch (detail).
1919. 15 HP DC Capstan winch (detail).
1937.

of Cooke Street, Hulme, later of Trafford Park, Manchester, electrical and mechanical engineers

Formerly F. H. Royce and Co

1899 F H Royce and Company was put into voluntary liquidation[1] and reconstructed with an enlarged capital, re-registration taking place under the title of Royce Ltd on 17 October. [2]

1903 Listed as 'Royce Limited. Electrical and mechanical engineers, makers of dynamos, meters, electrically driven cranes and hoists, arc lamps etc. Works - Cooke Street, Hulme. Branch works - Trafford Park' [3]

1903 Began experiments with motor car manufacture in a corner of his workshop. In the latter half of the year, Royce began producing a 10 hp model with overhead valves. By the spring of 1904 he had produced three cars. [4]

1904 Of the three cars, which were called Royces and had two-cylinder engines, one was given to Ernest A. Claremont and the other sold to one of the other directors, Henry Edmunds and ultimately to C. S. Rolls. One car was registered as AX 148.

1904 23rd December. Charles Stewart Rolls and Claude Goodman Johnson trading as C. S. Rolls and Co entered into an agreement to market the total output of the company; Rolls would make the bodywork[5]. The cars ranged from a two-cylinder 10 hp chassis to a six-cylinder 30 hp model. [4]

1906 March. Set up the Rolls-Royce company to produce cars, including acquiring the Cooke Street Works. Royce Ltd continued in business making cranes. In December a share issue funded the acquisition of C. S. Rolls and Co and enlargement of the works[6]

1909 Listed as Royce Limited. "Electrical and mechanical engineers, makers of dynamos, meters, electrically driven cranes, hoists, capstans and winches etc. Registered office and works - Trafford Park Road, Trafford Park, Manchester" [7]

1909 Electric 'monorail' jib crane for Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Forth Bank Works[8]

1911 Listed as Royce Limited. "Electrical and mechanical engineers, makers of dynamos, motors, electrically driven cranes, hoists, capstans and winches etc. Registered office and works - Trafford Park Road, Trafford Park, Manchester" [9]

1922 Manufactured electric cranes, electric capstans, electric winches, electric transporters, D.C. dynamos and motors, electric controllers and switchgear.

1930 Order obtained by Royce Ltd for the supply and erection of the steelwork of the large new building at Erith, Kent, of British Fibrocement Works, Limited, and the supply and erection of the steelwork of the Cumberland-street substation of the Manchester Corporation Electricity Department.[10]

1932 Company acquired by Herbert Morris of Loughborough.


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Sources of Information

  1. The London Gazette 27 October 1899
  2. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  3. Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1903
  4. 4.0 4.1 The Early History of Motoring by Claude Johnson
  5. The Times (London, England), 1906
  6. The Times, Dec 18, 1906
  7. Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909
  8. The Engineer 1909/03/19
  9. Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1911
  10. Engineering 1930/03/28