Stone-Wallwork
of Oldham, supplier of foundry equipment
1939 Private company.
1939 Wallwock Gears Ltd advertised for a gear cutter, used to worm-wheel ... generating machines, planers, drillers and millwright; also improvers.[1]
1950 Reconstruction of J. Stone and Co to be a holding company; the existing subsidiaries Stone-Wallwork Ltd and Stone Platt Engineering Co Ltd, which had complementary activities, would be merged into one, namely Stone-Wallwork, which would handle the mechanical engineering products; Stone-Platt would be liquidated. The existing 50 percent holdings in Light Metal Forgings Ltd and Stone-Fry Magnesium Ltd would be maintained[2].
1951 Stone Platt Engineering of Bleasby-street, Oldham was put into liquidation[3]
1961 Manufacturers of P.I.V. variable speed gears, transmission gearing foundry equipment and general engineering. 940 employees. [4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Evening News 9 Oct 1939
- ↑ The Times, 19 July 1950
- ↑ The London Gazette 31 July 1951
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE