Strachan and Henshaw
Engineers of Whitehall, Bristol.
Note: Strachan is pronounced 'strawn'
See Robert Price Strachan and George Henshaw
1879 Company established. Maker of stationary engines. [1]. Steam driven mortar mixers.[2]
1900 Private company.
1914 Engineers. Specialities: electric tramway materials, paper bag making, printing machinery, electric telpherage conveying plants for transporting coal, coke of merchandise. Employees 249. [3]
1920 Business was bought by E. S. and A. Robinson
By 1960 was part of the Robinson Group of Companies[4]
1961 Engineers, specialising in design and manufacture of machinery for printing, paper converting, packaging, heavy mechanical handling, nuclear power stations and wagon marshalling equipment. 1,000 employees. [5]
1966 Formation of Dickinson Robinson Group, which became the parent company
1968 Queen's Award to Industry for Export Achievement to the Printing, Paper Converting and Printing Machinery division, and for Technological Innovation to the Mechanical Handling division.[6]
1989 DRG was acquired by Pembridge Investments
1990 Pembridge Investments sold its interests to Weir Group
2008 Business acquired by Babcock International Group
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ Plate 83, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times Dec. 20, 1961
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer 1968/04/26 p650