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of Ealing Works, Sheffield.
Forgemasters and manufacturers of micrometers.
1869 Company founded by Ambrose Shardlow as a general engineer and machinist at Bridge Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield
1900 Specialising in crank-shafts
1907 Making pneumatic hammers (see illustration)
1911 30 bhp gas engine. [1]
1940 Employed 450 persons producing 200,000 crankshafts annually.
1961 Engineers and drop stampers and manufacturers of crankshafts and micrometers. 1,800 employees. [2]
1963 Taken over by GKN.
Ambrose Shardlow by David Price
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 8th December 1911 p596
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE