Rapid Magnetting Machine Co

1918. From ‘Kempes Year Book’

1929. Magnetic Separating Machine.

1929. Magnetic Separating Machine.

1929.

1938.

1943. From The Engineer’s Year Book.

Exhibit at Long Shop Steam Museum.

Detail. Exhibit at Long Shop Steam Museum.

of Magnet Works, Lombard Street, Birmingham, 12. Telephone: Victoria 1137/8 (2 lines). Telegraphic Address: "Borings, Birmingham". (1937)

1900 Company established

1908 Developed an ore grader

1912 Exhibitor at the Non-Ferrous Metals Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Halls .

1919 Moved from the Crescent to Lombard Street

1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a magnetic ore separator.

1932 Billy Box left the company to set up Electromagnets

1937 British Industries Fair Advert for the Manufacture of all classes of Electro-Magnet Equipments for wet and dry materials. Also the 'Rapidity' Separator for feebly magnetic ores. Patent "Biaflux" and "Rapidity" types. Also Electro-Magnetic Chucks, Clutches, Brakes, Lifting Magnets and Special Appliances. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. Cb.512)

1937 Electro-magneto separators, lifting magnets, chucks and clutches.

1937 Patent - Apparatus for preparing or cleaning surfaces by directing finely divided substances thereon.

1946 Patent - A new or improved magnetic holding device or clamp.

By 1951 was Rapid Magnetic Machines Ltd

Later acquired by Wolseley Hughes

1975 Still at Lombard Street. Last year?

See Also

• 1919 British Scientific Products Exhibition
• 1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Company R
• 1926 British Industries Fair
• 1926 Foundry Trades Exhibition
• 1927 British Industries Fair
• 1937 British Industries Fair
• 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
• 1950 British Industries Fair: Companies R
• 1957 British Industries Fair: Companies R
• Electromagnets
• Engineering 1907 Jul-Dec: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• Engineering 1914 Jan-Jun: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• Engineering 1929 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index
• Engineering 1937 Jul-Dec: Index: General
• Engineering 1939 Jan-Jun: Index: Patent Record
• Engineering 1950 Jan-Jun: Index: General
• Rapid Magnetic Machines
• The Engineer 1908/10/30
• The Engineer 1915/01/29
• The Engineer 1915/06/11
• The Engineer 1919/11/28
• The Engineer 1920/10/08
• The Engineer 1924/04/18
• The Engineer 1925/05/22
• The Engineer 1926/02/26
• The Engineer 1926/06/18
• The Engineer 1927/03/04 Supplement
• The Engineer 1927/05/06
• The Engineer 1930 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1930 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1931/04/03
• The Engineer 1931 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1935 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1935 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1936 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1937 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1939 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1939 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1941 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1947 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1949 Jan-Jun: Index

Sources of Information

• [1] [2] Wikipatents
• Birmingham’s Industrial Heritage by Ray Shill. Published by Sutton Publishing 2002. ISBN 0-7509-2593-0