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[[Image:Im1922v134-p361.jpg ‎|thumb| 1922. Large Surfacing and Boring Machine. ]]
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[[Image:Im19291206Eng-Kearns.jpg|thumb| December 1929. ]]


[[Image:Im1931v151-p308b.jpg ‎|thumb|1931. Surfacing and Boring Machine. ]]
[[Image:Im1931v151-p308b.jpg ‎|thumb|1931. Surfacing and Boring Machine. ]]

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1961. Horizontal boring machine.

H. W. Kearns of Atlantic Street, Broadheath, Altrincham, were makers of machine tools.

1907 Private company founded by Henry Ward Kearns

1927 Henry Ward Kearns the founder died and his sons Joseph Richard Carden Kearns and H. W. L. Kearns took over

1937 Machine tool manufacturers. "Kearns" Horizontal Boring Machines.

1955 Company made public.

1961 Machine toolmakers, manufacturing universal horizontal surfacing, boring, milling, drilling and tapping machines. 480 employees.

1968 Staveley Industries rationalised its machine tool division, including giving responsibility for horizontal table borers to Kearns[1]

  • Double-spindle horizontal boring machine.


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, Feb 20, 1968
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