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'''Cravens''' of Staniforth Road, Darnall, Sheffield | '''Cravens''' of Staniforth Road, Darnall, Sheffield | ||
1867 Company founded: '''Craven Brothers and Co''' | 1867 Company founded: '''Craven Brothers and Co''' | ||
1891 Public company; '''Cravens''' Ltd | 1891 Public company; '''Cravens''' Ltd | ||
1901 Railway Carriage Builders<ref>[[White's Directory of Sheffield and Rotherham, 1901]] p979</ref> | |||
1911 Manufacturer of Carriages and Wagons for the Railways.<ref>Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911</ref> | 1911 Manufacturer of Carriages and Wagons for the Railways.<ref>Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911</ref> | ||
Revision as of 13:47, 23 June 2017
Cravens of Staniforth Road, Darnall, Sheffield 1867 Company founded: Craven Brothers and Co
1891 Public company; Cravens Ltd
1901 Railway Carriage Builders[1]
1911 Manufacturer of Carriages and Wagons for the Railways.[2]
1914 Manufacturers of railway carriages and wagons. Specialities: high class rolling stock of every description including Pullman cars, wheels and axles, iron work. Employees 800 to 1,000. [3]
1919 Name changed to Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Ltd.
1926 Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Ltd., of Darnall, Sheffield, completed a railway carriage of a special type, for use as a sleeping car for the King of Siam on the Royal State Railways of that country. [4]
1946 Participated in a consortium of engineering companies, led by John Brown and Co, which joined together in an enterprise which would use surplus factory space at Yeovil belonging to Westland[5]
1952 Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Works was owned by John Brown and Co; the company was receiving many enquiries for export but experiencing increasing competition[6].
1961 Engineers and rolling stock manufacturers. 1,200 employees. [7]
1967 Cravens Machines, a subsidiary of John Brown and Co, acquired the Granbull Division of Baker, Perkins responsible for that companys plastics work[8].
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ White's Directory of Sheffield and Rotherham, 1901 p979
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1911
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/04/09
- ↑ The Times, Dec 28, 1946
- ↑ The Times, 27 September 1952
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ History of Baker Perkins Granbull, Twyford [1]