Woodall-Duckham Construction Co
of Brompton Road, London.
1906 Business founded by Harold Woodall and Arthur McDougall Duckham
1911 Company founded
1920 Private company formed as Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Co. (1920) Ltd.
1928 Partially rebuilt the vertical retorts of Sheffield Gas Co at Neepsend[1]
1929 Designed and installed the first coke ovens on the Becker system in the UK - 25 ovens were built at Handsworth for the Nunnery Colliery Co of Sheffield[2]
1933 Built some intermittent vertical retorts on the Stettin principle for the Croydon Gas Co[3]. Built carbonizing plant for the Tottenham and District Gas Co[4]
1936 Built new coking plant at Blacker near Wombwell for the Barnsley and District Coking Co; motor spirit would be one of the byproducts[5]
1937 Erected 82 coke ovens at Redbourn for Richard Thomas and Co[6]
1938 Erected vertical chamber ovens for the Commercial Gas Co at Poplar[7]. Erected new coke ovens for the Stanton Iron Works Co[8]
1948 Incorporated as a public company[9]
1953 Name changed. Woodall-Duckham was a public company which started to be quoted on the London Stock Exchange in April 1953[10].
1961 Designers and contractors for coal carbonising and coal and oil gasification plants, and ancillary plants for the gas, coking and chemical industries. 2,700 employees.[11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Mar 13, 1928
- ↑ The Times, Apr 06, 1929
- ↑ The Times, Feb 13, 1933
- ↑ The Times, Dec 13, 1933
- ↑ The Times, May 05, 1936
- ↑ The Times, Friday, Jul 16, 1937
- ↑ The Times Friday, Feb 18, 1938
- ↑ The Times, Jun 23, 1938
- ↑ The Times, Oct 06, 1948
- ↑ The Times, 4 April 1953
- ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE