Walter Newbold and Co
of Huggin Lane, London, E.C.4., London
Possible connection with Newbold's Machine Tool Co
Established 1885.
1894 Listed 'Walter Newbold and Co., 1a Pountney Hill, London E.C.'[1]
1910 Walter Newbold and Co (of Coventry) wound up. Walter Newbold is Chairman.[2]
1922 Listed as Manufacturers of lathes, drilling, planing, shaping, slotting, screwing, punching, shearing and wood working machinery.
1922 Letter 'Sir,— I notice in your paper of yesterday's date a cartoon on the front page "The Hon. Member for Moscow, Mr. W. Newbold," and beg to point out that, as I am the only W. Newbold in the London Directory, and my name having been known all over the country amongst engineers and machinery merchants for the last thirty-seven years, I shall be glad if you will notify your readers that the "Member for MOSCOW" has no connection with Walter Newbold and Co., Ltd., otherwise it may do us considerable damage, as I am known in the trade as Mr. W. Newbold. WALTER NEWBOLD. 11-12-13. Huggin-lane, E.C.,'[3]
1924 Walter Newbold and Co (of Huggin Lane) wound up. Walter Newbold is Chairman.[4]
This 1910 zoomable photograph[5] shows a punching and shearing machine bearing the name Walter Newbold & Co London, taken in the works of Henry Gittus and Co of Manchester. Did Gittus make it for Newbold? They did make similar machines for F. J. Edwards.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Thursday 19 July 1894
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:14 June 1910 Issue:28384 Page:4200
- ↑ Pall Mall Gazette - Friday 24 November 1922
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:19 February 1924 Issue:32909 Page:1505
- ↑ [1] Manchester City Council image collection: Henry Gittus and Co, Iron Works, Travis Street, Manchester, 1910. Image No.m61444