Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and
manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,701 pages of
information and 247,104 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.
1888. Crane at St. Kitts Sugar Corporation (St. Kitts and Nevis). Has been moved to St. Kitts Scenic Railway.1911-1918. No. 8240. 10 ton steam shunting crane. Nb, Very late for a chain roped machine.1911-1918. No.6473. 30-ton locomotive steam crane.1911-1918. No.7390. 4-ton dockside crane.1911-1918. No.7550. 7-ton steam shunting crane.1911-1918. No.8140. 5-ton double-bogie type breakdown crane.1911-1918. No.8156. Locomotive steam travelling crane.1937. Isles Ltd Leyland service engineering works on the corner of Bradford Road and Cross Harrison Street, Stanningley.13-ton hand-cranked Isles steam crane on a short 4-wheel bogey at Leeds and Middleton Railway (2008).Fly-wheel on above crane.Jib on above crane (2014).Cast iron gas lamp with copper top converted to electricity in a garden in Pool in Wharfdale (2008).
Prospect Works / Foundry, Stanningley, near Leeds.
1928 The firm became a Leyland Lorry Distributor in 1928 and left the Crane Manufacturing business.[5]
1943 Gertrude Agnes Isles laid a foundation stone to commemorate the extension of the premises that at that time had 150 employees making munitions for WWII. [6]
