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Steel Band Conveyor and Engineering Co

From Graces Guide

of Barker-Street Works, Parade, Birmingham.(1926)

of Dawlish Road Works, Selly Oak, Birmingham.(1937)

Manufacturers and suppliers in Great Britain - Formerly Steel Belt Conveyors.

1926 Changed their address from Norwich Union Chambers, Congreve-Street, Birmingham (also the address of Sandvik British Agency), to Barker-Street Works, Parade, Birmingham.[1]

1930 Patent by the company with Walter Harvey Allen on "Improved means for delivering finely-divided or powdered material to conveyors"

1937 Mechanical handling and conveying engineers.

1944 Patent by the company with Walter Harvey Allen on "An improved method of and means for transferring heat to or from material carried upon a band conveyor"

1947 Patent with Alan Thurburn Scott on "An improved method of and means for cooling material carried upon a band conveyor", a modification of an earlier patent with W. H. Allen (1944)

1949 Patent on "Improvements in means for feeding fluid material on to a moving surface" invented by John Meredith

Post-WWII this was also the address of Sandvik Steel Band Conveyors Ltd

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1926/04/16