Chambers, Scott and Co



1911 Supplied electric winches to the RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.
1913 They supplied an electric winch for the steam yacht Sapphire that year. [1]
1918 Contracted by the US Military to build a batch of 2' gauge hand cranes to a French Army design of Col. Pechot - there is doubt that these ever were shipped to France. They were advertised for surpus sale from a US base in Slough; two were bought by the SR and went to the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway; one, via Col. Stephens, to the Ffestiniog Rly.
1926 Motherwell Times of 31 December 1926, recorded a very serious fire at the company’s premises. This incident may in fact have brought the business to and end.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1913/11/07