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[[Image:Im1912IM-Tim.jpg|thumb| 1912. Capstan Lathes. ]]
[[Image:Im1912IM-Tim.jpg|thumb| 1912. Capstan Lathes. ]]
[[Image:JD 2020 Timbrell.jpg|thumb|1914 6.5" lathe<ref>Engineering, 20 Feb 1914</ref>]]
[[Image:JD 2020 Timbrell.jpg|thumb|1914 6.5" lathe. ]]
[[Image:Im19291206Eng-Timbrell.jpg|thumb| December 1929. ]]
[[Image:Im19291206Eng-Timbrell.jpg|thumb| December 1929. ]]
[[Image:Im1937Eng-Timbrell.jpg|thumb| 1937. ]]


[[Image:Im1943EYB-Timbrell.jpg|thumb| 1943. ]]
[[Image:Im1943EYB-Timbrell.jpg|thumb| 1943. ]]
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'''Timbrell and Wright Machine Tool and Engineering Co''' of Slaney Street, Birmingham 4.
'''Timbrell and Wright Machine Tool and Engineering Co''' of Slaney Street, Birmingham 4.
1939 'Mr. [[William Timbrell]], of 27, Flint Green-road, Acock’s Green, Birmingham, chairman of the Timbrell and Wright Machine Tool and Engineering Co., Ltd., left £16,779 (net £16,609).'<ref>Evening Despatch - 4 February 1939</ref>


1940 Advert. Capstan lathes. <ref>Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p115</ref>
1940 Advert. Capstan lathes. <ref>Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p115</ref>
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1945 Advert. Capstan lathes and tool equipment. <ref>Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p175</ref>
1945 Advert. Capstan lathes and tool equipment. <ref>Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p175</ref>


1943 'MR. WALTER WRIGHT. The death has occurred at Stratford-on-Avon of Mr. [[Walter Wright]], who was in his seventy-ninth year. As a youth he studied engineering at the Midland Institute and, at the age of twenty-three, he founded, with the late Mr. W. Timbrell, the firm of Timbrell and Wright, machine tool manufacturers. After a few years he severed his connection with the firm and went into private practice as consulting engineer. In 1913 he founded the Wright Engineering Company in Birmingham, but suffered from the economic conditions following the last war. In 1922. at the age of sixty, he returned to Stratford-on-Avon (his birthplace) and founded the Wright Engineering Company.'<ref>Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 13 October 1943</ref>


== See Also ==
== See Also ==

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1912. Capstan Lathes.
1914 6.5" lathe.
December 1929.
1937.
1943.
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August 1946.

Timbrell and Wright Machine Tool and Engineering Co of Slaney Street, Birmingham 4.

1939 'Mr. William Timbrell, of 27, Flint Green-road, Acock’s Green, Birmingham, chairman of the Timbrell and Wright Machine Tool and Engineering Co., Ltd., left £16,779 (net £16,609).'[1]

1940 Advert. Capstan lathes. [2]

1945 Advert. Capstan lathes and tool equipment. [3]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Evening Despatch - 4 February 1939
  2. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p115
  3. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p175
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