Thomas Larmuth and Co
Thomas Larmuth & Co., of Todleben Works, Salford, Manchester.
Makers of machinery for rock-drilling, leather-working, wire production, textile production
1841 Listed as Thomas Larmuth, Mechanic, Machine Maker of Victoria Arches, Victoria Bridge and 19 Queen Street, Salford. Also listed is Matthew Larmuth, Machine Maker of 13 Bolton Street, Salford. [1]
1853 Listed as Thomas Larmuth, machine chain manufacturer of Cross Street, Salford and living at Mount Pleasant Square, Salford. [2]
1865 Advertisement: 'TO BE SOLD, ONE 12-Horse Cornish BOILER, new March, 1864 ; makers, Messrs. Hill and Co., Heywood: now working at Thomas Larmuth and Co., tool makers, Bury-street, Salford.'[3]
1880 Advertisement in The Engineer: makers of T. Sturgeon's Patent Trunk Air Compressor, winding, pumping, horizontal and vertical Engines, and every description of winding machinery.
1887 'The Thirlmere Water Scheme.- Messrs. Morrison and Mason, Glasgow, the new contractors for the above work, have ordered from Messrs. Thomas Larmuth and Co., Salford, entirely new rock-boring machinery, consisting of the Patent Hirnant Rock Drills, rock drill carriages, and other appliances. It would seem from this that they intend to push the work forward in a businesslike manner. Messrs. Morrison and Mason have Larmuth's machinery working in the Mugdock tunnel, on the Loch Katrine works, for the Corporation of Glasgow.'[4]
1893 Larmuth 'Hirnant' steam-driven compressor for the Meyer and Charlton Gold Mining Company.[5]
1895 Listed as Engineers and Machinists, Ironfounders, Mining Engineers of Unwin Street, Cross Lane, Salford. Note: Also listed is Matthew Henry Larmuth, Engineer, 24 Eccles Old Road [6]
c.1909 Advertised as specialists in a wide range of machinery for the manufacture of electrical wires and cables [7]
1909 10-ton manually-operated overhead travelling crane at Forest Hill Sub-Station, Lewisham. 1909 photo here [8]
c.1910 Makers of machines for producing rope and twine [9]
1925 'ROPE MACHINE AMALGAMATION. A public company with a capital of £200,000, in 80,000 7 per cent. Preference shares and 120,000 Ordinary shares of £1 each, has been registered, says Jordan's daily list, with the title Larmuth and Bulmer, Ltd. The new company will take over and amalgamate the businesses of manufacturers of machinery for making hemp and wire ropes and electric cables now carried on by Thomas Larmuth and Co., Ltd., at Todleben Ironworks, Salford, and by Messrs. Bulmer at Newcastle-on-Tyne and Cleckheaton.'[10]
1931 In voluntary liquidation [11]
Larmuth's Todleben Works was located immediately west of Salford Cattle Market, with access from Unwin Street.[12]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1841 Pigot & Slater's Directory of Manchester and Salford
- ↑ 1853 Directory of Manchester & Salford
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 25 November 1865
- ↑ Lakes Herald, 3 June 1887
- ↑ The Engineer 10th February 1893
- ↑ 1895 Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory
- ↑ [1] ‘Electric Cables - Their Construction and Cost’ D Coyle & F. J. O. How, Spon, 1909
- ↑ [2] London Picture Archive
- ↑ [3] Online selected pages from William S. Murphy's "The Textile Industries". Volume 4
- ↑ Daily News (London) - Friday 27 March 1925
- ↑ [4] The London Gazette
- ↑ 'The Godfrey Edition' Old Ordnance Survey Maps, Lancashire Sheet 104.05, Salford (West) 1916 [5]