Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,689 pages of information and 247,075 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Schofield and Taylor

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1887 Schofield & Taylor vertical compound engine at Wortley Top Forge
1917.

Schofield & Taylor of Perseverance Iron Works, Turnbridge, Huddersfield

1907 250 HP horizontal cross compound engine for Benjamin Armitage and Co, Shepley. Photographed by George Watkins in 1966[1].

1911 Company incorporated

1917 Advert. Engineers and millwrights [2]

1947 W. C. Holmes and Co acquired a majority of the ordinary shares in Schofield and Taylor Ltd, makers of plant for the coke oven works, iron and steel industry and the textile industry, equipment for rolling mills and chemical works[3].



350 HP beam engine made for Priestley Mill, Pudsey. [4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000
  2. Directory 1917 Worrall's Yorkshire Textile Advert p280
  3. The Times, 11 February 1949
  4. 'Steam Engine Research Resources' written and published by Stanley Challenger Graham on LULU.com, 2009: ISBN 978-1-4092-9009-4