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Wadkin

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November 1957. Woodworking machinery.
March 1958.
June 1958.
1959. 10in sliding table dimension saw bench.
November 1961.

of Green Lane Works, Leicester

1935 Wadkin and Co changed its name to Wadkin Ltd[1]

1937 Woodworking machinery [2]

1951 Company made public.

1961 Manufacturers of woodworking machinery and high speed machine tools. Producers of the "Wadkin" and "Wadkin-Bursgreen" ranges of industrial woodworking machinery. One of the largest manufacturers of high-speed wood-working machinery in the world. 1,000 employees. [3]

1968 Announce new NC milling machine [4]

1972 Received support for a project on a timber end-jointer from government programme for the machine tool industry [5]

1986 Acquired by the Thomas Robinson Group.[6]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Mar. 13, 1951
  2. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  3. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  4. ↑ The Engineer 1968/07/05 p30
  5. ↑ The Times, Mar 15, 1972
  6. ↑ Newcastle Journal 04 February 1986
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