W. S. Barron and Son
of Ladybellegate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire. Telephone: Gloucester 2255 (2 lines) Telegraphic Address: "Barron, Gloucester"
1903 W. S. Barron and Son, an engineering firm noted for provender mill plant, started at Kingsholm.
1914 Milling engineers, millwrights and millstone manufacturers. Specialities: provender grinding machinery, warehouse and grain conveyor plants, flour milling machinery, composition millstones, millstones of French burr stones, patent "Dreadnought" grinders, "Super-Dreadnought" grinder, "Dreadnought" millstones. Employees 36 to 40. [1]
1919 W. S. Barron and Son Ltd was incorporated to continue the business of William Stephenson Barron and George Stephenson Barron, millwrights, engineers and millstone builders.
1930s Rented floors in Britannia Warehouse, Gloucester Docks.
1934 W. S. Barron and Son was building a factory in Bristol Road, when it started a collaboration with the milling engineers Henry Simon Ltd. of Stockport, Cheshire.
1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Grinders and Pulverisers; Sifting, Mixing and Dressing Machinery; Complete Provender Plants. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.611) [2]
1944 Patent - Improvements in crushing mills.
1951 Patent - Improvements relating to grinding mills.
1964 Renamed Simon-Barron Ltd, part of the Simon Engineering Group
1978 Simon-Barron, subsidiary of a Stockport engineer, were located in Gloucester[3]
1990 Renamed W. S. Barron Ltd
1992 The company was a subsidiary of Thomas Robinson Group plc
1992 Thomas Robinson Group plc was acquired by BM Group plc of Chippenham[4]
1992 Renamed Robinson Milling Systems (Tewkesbury) Ltd[5]
By 1994 Robinson Milling Systems (Tewkesbury) Ltd was a subsidiary of Tate and Lyle[6]
- Vertical stone mill on display at Caudwell's Mill, Rowsley, Derbyshire.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Advert p655; and p332
- ↑ The Times Apr. 17, 1978
- ↑ 1992 Annual report
- ↑ 1992 Annual report
- ↑ 1994 Annual report