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Outgrew the Berwick Street accommodation and then, jointly with Mr. Edmondson, '''Muir''' occupied a large building in Miller's Lane, Salford. Mr. Edmondson occupied the top floor as a Railway Ticket Printing Office; Muir manufactured the printing, dating, and other machines, as well as conducting business as a machine-tool maker. | Outgrew the Berwick Street accommodation and then, jointly with Mr. Edmondson, '''Muir''' occupied a large building in Miller's Lane, Salford. Mr. Edmondson occupied the top floor as a Railway Ticket Printing Office; Muir manufactured the printing, dating, and other machines, as well as conducting business as a machine-tool maker. | ||
1849 advert: 'LETTER COPYING PRESSES, and EMBOSSING Ditto, Designed by WILLIAM MUIR and Manufactured under his own personal superintendence. An assortment of all sizes kept in stock. Presses fitted with Steel Dies for Initials, Address of Business Firms, & c.; also Dies and Stamps of every description, made to order. Sold Wholesale and Retail at Low Prices for cash, at the Manufactory, Millers-lane, Greengate, Salford, four minutes' walk from the Manchester Exchange. | |||
1851 Exhibited at Great Exhibition<ref>[[1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class VI.]]</ref>. | 1851 Exhibited at Great Exhibition<ref>[[1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class VI.]]</ref>. | ||
Revision as of 12:50, 4 September 2018
W. Muir and Co Engineers and machinists, of Britannia Works, Sherbourne Street, Salford (Manchester).
1842 Company established when William Muir left Whitworths in June and established a workshop in Berwick Street, Manchester, where he had room for a small forge, his lathe, and a bench.
Outgrew the Berwick Street accommodation and then, jointly with Mr. Edmondson, Muir occupied a large building in Miller's Lane, Salford. Mr. Edmondson occupied the top floor as a Railway Ticket Printing Office; Muir manufactured the printing, dating, and other machines, as well as conducting business as a machine-tool maker.
1849 advert: 'LETTER COPYING PRESSES, and EMBOSSING Ditto, Designed by WILLIAM MUIR and Manufactured under his own personal superintendence. An assortment of all sizes kept in stock. Presses fitted with Steel Dies for Initials, Address of Business Firms, & c.; also Dies and Stamps of every description, made to order. Sold Wholesale and Retail at Low Prices for cash, at the Manufactory, Millers-lane, Greengate, Salford, four minutes' walk from the Manchester Exchange.
1851 Exhibited at Great Exhibition[1].
1852 Muir was asked to supply the Woolwich Arsenal with machinery for making interchangeable rifle sights; and with business increasing, he built the Britannia Works in Sherborne Street, Strangeways, and took on partners.
1862 Exhibited at London Exhibition[2].
1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: machine tools for shipbuilders, armament works, engine works etc. Employees 450. [3]
1937 Company renamed Muir Machine Tools[4]
1944 Acquired by David Brown and Sons.