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 164,585 pages of information and 246,144 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

William Whittaker and Sons

From Graces Guide
January 1888.
1897. Wheel-Moulding Machine.
1913.
1918.
1923.

of Sun Iron Works, King Street, Oldham

1849 Company established.

1907 Incorporated as a limited company.

1913 Advert. Makers of gear wheels, shafting, pulleys, couplings etc. [1]

1914 Engineers, millwrights and ironfounders. Specialities: machine-moulded gear wheels and machines for making same, all classes of wheels moulded by machinery, double helical tooth wheels. Employees 100. [2]

1917 Advert. Makers of gear wheels, shafting, pulleys, couplings etc. [3]

1919 Advert. Makers of gear wheels, shafting, pulleys, couplings etc. [4]

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Sources of Information

  1. Mechanical World Year Book 1913. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p66
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  3. Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p140
  4. Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p178