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1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: machine tools for shipbuilders, armament works, engine works etc. Employees 450. <ref>[[1914 Whitakers Red Book]]</ref>
1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: machine tools for shipbuilders, armament works, engine works etc. Employees 450. <ref>[[1914 Whitakers Red Book]]</ref>
1937 Company renamed [[Muir Machine Tools]]<ref>The Times Mar 12, 1951</ref>


1944 Acquired by [[David Brown and Sons]].
1944 Acquired by [[David Brown and Sons]].

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Lathe 2670 still in use in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (South India). (2012).
Lathe 2670 still in use in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (South India). (2012). (Detail).
1847.
1852.
January 1866.
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January 1880.
1885. Exhibit at Darlington Railway Museum.
December 1889.
June 1898.
August 1899.
1899.
Slotting machine exhibited at Amberley Working Museum.
February 1901.
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January 1902.
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1909. Headstock of turbine rotor lathe.
1909.102 inch turbine rotor lathe.
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1922. Spur Gear Generating Machine.
1932 (from ‘A Shipbuilding History’)
1947. Light machine shop before re-organisation.
1947. Light machine shop after re-organisation.
Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum. No.1688 lathe.
Muir travelling head shaper served a supporting role in store at Wortley Top Forge. Now in private preservation

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.

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.

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class VI.
  2. ↑ 1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7.: William Muir and Co
  3. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  4. ↑ The Times Mar 12, 1951
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