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Tangyes Machine Tool Co

From Graces Guide
Inscription on award winning treadle lathe.
Treadle lathe reading “Prize Medal Paris 1878”.
June 1888. Machine Tools.
1889.

of Oxford Works, Birmingham (1888)

1877 Company registered, capital £24,300 in £150 shares[1]. This was established by the Tangye family, but was a separate business to Tangyes.

1893 Description of Tangye's 10-inch lathe[2]

1900 Reconstructed in the form of the Tangye Tool and Electric Co[3] at Oxford Works. Richard Tangye was chairman.

1895 Patent by Tangyes Machine Tool Co, John Tangye of Handsworth, mechanical engineer, and William Henry Bailey of Smethwick, mechanical engineer, on "New or Improved Machinery for Finishing or Machining the Peripheries of Pulleys and Fly Wheels, and for other like purposes."


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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Monday 23 July 1877
  2. Engineering 1893/02/24
  3. London Gazette 21 December 1900