Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Wellman, Seaver and Head

From Graces Guide
1909.
1912.

Steel works engineers and contractors.

of 47 Victoria Street, London S.W.

Originally established by Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co of Cleveland, Ohio[1]

1909 Had established systems for making electric motors and controllers for overhead travelling cranes of any required rating[2].

1912 Catalogue of open-hearth furnace charging machines[3].

1919 Supplied 4 furnaces to Frodingham capable of producing 1100 tons of steel/week[4]

1919 Wellman, Smith, Owen Engineering Corporation was formed as a private company for the purposes of taking over Wellman-Seaver and Head and James Smith Hoisting Machinery Co Ltd. Also acquired the engineering department of Messrs Rubery, Owen and Co[5].

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 12 August 1925
  2. The Times, 3 March 1909
  3. The Times, 21 August 1912
  4. The Times, 30 April 1919
  5. The Times, 2 February 1924