Whittam

1869 Calipers

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1880. From The Engineer of 25th June.

6" steel rule marked 'Whittam Walkden'. The fine standard of engraving will be apparent

William Whittam of 25 Islington Street, Salford, Manchester (address in 1880), then Walkden, and now Fletcher Street, Bolton.

1860 Company established.

1884 Patented an internal gauge, being an improved form of telescopic gauge.

In 1886 their address was 188 Chapel Street, Salford.

1892 'MR. WILLIAM WHITTAM entered upon his distinguished career of industry in the year 1860 at 25, Islington Street, Salford, where so vigorously did he develop his business that he found it necessary ten years ago to remove to the present more convenient and commodious quarters. The premises occupied consist of a capitally-appointed shop and show-room on the ground floor, holding a very full stock of specimens of some of Mr. Whittam’s more minute work, such as sectors for the gauging and cutting of worms and teeth, slide gauges, and pitchometers for exportation. The commodious workrooms located on the first floor are replete with all the most modern and improved machinery for planing, cutting, and accurately marking steel; and here a full staff of skilled workmen is constantly engaged in producing the superior goods for which the firm has become so justly famous, and which include all kinds of steel rules, accurately marked and superbly finished in every detail; engineers’ mechanical and mathematical tools, centre T and L squares, compasses, callipers, and spring dividers; slide gauges with or without vernier, divided into any measurement that may be required; moulders’ tools of every description, spirit levels, letters, figures, and name stamps, brands and stencil plates, wood and ivory rules, and so forth. The firm, moreover, make a speciality of engraving names, inscriptions, monograms, crests, mottoes, &c., on gold and silver plate, jewellery and ivory. Door and window plates, &c., in brass, zinc, and copper; also coffin plates. Every kind of steel and other metal scales for drawing, contraction, and standard measuring purposes; squares, indices, &c., are made and marked with English or any foreign measurements, or broken number, or to sketches supplied, worked out and corrected if desired, with a fidelity which cannot be surpassed. It may be mentioned in this connection that Messrs. Whittam’s steel rules and standards are in use at all the principal engineering and mechanical establishments and Government yards both at home and abroad, and they have received extensive English and foreign patronage for special measuring and gauging instruments. Personally, Mr. Whittam’s whole career has been one of unremitting activity; and by his constant energy, enterprise, and sound principles he has firmly established a business which extends its present operations over a universal field of action, and enjoys the full confidence of a world-wide connection.'

Now located in Bolton as Whittam Precision Rules

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