Cravens
Cravens of Staniforth Road, Darnall, Sheffield
formerly 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 became Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Co
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]