Lilleshall Co
From Graces Guide
of St. Georges, Oakengates, Shropshire
Lilleshall Company were mechanical engineers, coal and iron merchants, iron founders and manufacturers, and steel manufacturers. The company was noted for its winding, pumping and blast engines.
- 1784 Company established.
- 1802 Company founded.
- c1830 Beam engine for the Lilleshall Co of Priors Lee Pits and listed as made by St George's Ironworks. [1]
- 1862 Built an exhibition railway locomotive and then built a number for their own use and for local collieries. [2]
- 1880 Public company. The company was registered on 31 December. But Aberconway says "The Company was a private one in which Lord Granville's family had large interests"[3].
- 1888 The Snedshill Iron Co was absorbed. [4]
- 1890 Negotiations over wages with the Shropshire blast-furnace men was conducted by Mr Perrott of Lilleshall Co[5].
- 1891 Advert. Of Shifnal. [6]
- 1895? Supplied vertical twin-cylinder winding engine for Rockingham Colliery.
- 1895 Operated as coal merchants at several places in the county and at Dudley.
- 1898 Horizontal Engine with gear drive for Metropolitan Water Board (Southfleet Station).
- 1900 Two engines for Borough of West Ham (Abbey Mills).
- 1908 Advert: Electrical Blowing Gas Engines, Large Powers[7]
- 1912 2130 HP Nuremberg-type gas engines for the railway power station, Kamata, near Yokohama.[8]
- 1923 Two Horizontal Rotative Engines for The West Cheshire Water Board (Prenton Station).
- 1929 - 1931 Three pumping engines supplied to Langford Pumping Station, Essex (see photo).
- 1951 Lilleshall Iron and Steel Co nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[9]
- 1954 Lilleshall Iron and Steel Co denationalised; sold to Lilleshall Co[10].
- 1961 Structural and mechanical engineers, manufacturers of rolled steel products, glazed bricks, sanitaryware, Spectra-Glaze and concrete products. 750 employees. [11]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- ↑ British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- ↑ The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter XX
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post, 6 February 1890
- ↑ Post Office London Trades Directory, 1891
- ↑ The Times, 9 December 1908; p. 19
- ↑ Engineering 20th September 1912
- ↑ Hansard 19 February 1951
- ↑ The Times, 15 December 1954
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE