Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,583 pages of information and 246,144 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Strachan and Henshaw

From Graces Guide
September 1909.
December 1910.
February 1914.
1917.
1928. Whitehall Coal Tippler.
1953.
1955.
1965.
1969.

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

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Sources of Information

  1. Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
  2. Plate 83, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
  3. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  4. The Times Dec. 20, 1961
  5. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  6. The Engineer 1968/04/26 p650