W. H. Baxter
W. H. Baxter and Co of Albion Street, Leeds. (1886).[1]
W. H. Baxter Ltd, engineer of Gelderd Road, Leeds (1914)
1878 Company established by William Henry Baxter
1881 Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Derby.[2]
1898 Incorporated as a limited company.
1903 Introduced a combined shaping and boring machine. This comprised a shaping machine with an extended bed, and an extra table equipped with a boring bar driven from the shaper drive system. Intended for machining bearings brasses, etc.[3]
1914 Engineers. Specialities: stone-breaking, ore crushing, screening and elevating, sand washing, stone tar coating, granulating and crushing machinery and concrete mixers. [4]
1954 Mention of David Nash as a director.[5]
1955 Large order received for stone-breaking machines for India. Edward Nash is chairman.[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1886/01/08
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 12 July 1881
- ↑ Engineering 1903/12/18
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 23 September 1954
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 09 July 1955