Gimson and Co
From Graces Guide
of Vulcan Works, Vulcan Street, Leicester
- 1842 Company founded.
- 1880 Single-Cylinder Rotative beam Engine for South Staffordshire Waterworks (Hopwas Station).
- 1885 Four engines for Burton-on-Trent Council (Clay Mills Station).
- 1892 Advert. [1]
- 1896 Private company. The company was registered on 4 September, to acquire the business of mechanical engineers of the firm of the same name. [2]
- 1914 Engineers. Specialities: passenger and goods lifts, boot and shoe machinery and all classes of general engineering. Employees 700. [3]
- 1937 General engineers and ironfounders. [4]
- 1961 General engineers and ironfounders, producing bottling machinery, conveyors, electric goods and passenger lifts. 450 employees. [5]
Sources of Information
- ↑ Wright's Directory of Leicestershire, 1892
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10