S. Russell and Sons

1943. From The Engineer’s Year Book.

1946. From Machine Shop Magazine of August.

1958.

1960.

of Bath-Lane, Leicester, iron and non-ferrous founders, mechanical and structural engineers, and machine tool makers.

1864 Company founded as a brass foundry by Samuel Russell

Expanded into iron founding.

1883 Moved to the Bath Lane site.

Russell's sons expanded the business into structural and mechanical engingeering.

1927 April: purchased the goodwill of the metal sawing machine department of the Isaac Hill and Son Ltd. and secured the services of Mr D. M. J. Hill late of that firm.

1931 Private company incorporated to acquire the business.

1937 Structural and general engineers. "Nicrosilal" Alloy Irons. "Ni-Hard" and "Ni-Resist" Alloy Irons. "Silal" Alloy Irons.

1948 Company made public.

1961 Ironfounders, mechanical and structural engineers, handling high grade iron castings and S.G. (Ductile) iron castings. Mechanical engineers producing metal sawing machinery including the "Hydrofeed" range of heavy circular metal sawing machines. Specialists in steel framed buildings, quarry plant structures and fabricated steel machinery components. 675 employees.

Acquired Jewel Engineering (Leicester).

See Also

• 1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Company R
• 1937 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Visits to Works
• 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
• 1952 International Machine Tool Exhibition
• 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
• Automobile Engineer: 1965/07
• B. Elliott and Co
• Engineering 1964 Jan-Jun: Index
• Ernest Spiers
• Isaac Hill and Son
• Jewel Engineering (Leicester)
• Philip A. Russell
• Samuel Hibbert Russell
• The Engineer 1931/02/13
• The Engineer 1932 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1932 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1933 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1935 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1948 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1952/09/19 Supplement