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Double-spindle horizontal boring machine
Double-spindle horizontal boring machine
* 1907 Private company.
* 1955 Company made public.
* 1961 Machine toolmakers, manufacturing universal horizontal surfacing, boring, milling, drilling and tapping machines. 480 employees.


==Sources of Information==
==Sources of Information==
Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
* [[1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE]]

Revision as of 14:55, 18 April 2008

H. W. Kearns of Broadheath, Manchester were makers of machine tools

Double-spindle horizontal boring machine

  • 1907 Private company.
  • 1955 Company made public.
  • 1961 Machine toolmakers, manufacturing universal horizontal surfacing, boring, milling, drilling and tapping machines. 480 employees.


Sources of Information

Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham