H. W. Kearns and Co
From Graces Guide
of Atlantic Street, Broadheath, near Manchester
H. W. Kearns of Broadheath, Manchester were makers of machine tools.
Double-spindle horizontal boring machine.
- 1907 Private company.
- 1937 Machine tool manufacturers. "Kearns" Horizontal Boring Machines.
- 1955 Company made public.
- 1961 Machine toolmakers, manufacturing universal horizontal surfacing, boring, milling, drilling and tapping machines. 480 employees.
Sources of Information
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries