Lilleshall Co
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of of St. Georges, Oakengates, Shropshire
Lillishall Company were general engineers .
- The company was noted for its winding, pumping and blast engines.
- 1784 Company established.
- 1802 Company founded.
- c1830 Beam engine for the Lilleshall Co of Priors Lee Pits and listed as made by St George's Ironworks. [1]
- 1862 Built an exhibition railway locomotive and then built a number for their own use and for local collieries. [2]
- 1880 Public company. The company was registered on 31 December.
- 1888 The Snedshill Iron Co was absorbed. [3]
- 1890 Negotiations over wages with the Shropshire blast-furnace men was conducted by Mr Perrott of Lilleshall Co[4].
- 1891 Advert. Of Shifnal. [5]
- 1895? Supplied vertical twin-cylinder winding engine for Rockingham Colliery.
- 1895 Operated as coal merchants at several places in the county and at Dudley.
- 1898 Horizontal Engine with gear drive for Metropolitan Water Board (Southfleet Station).
- 1900 Two engines for Borough of West Ham (Abbey Mills).
- 1908 Advert: Electrical Blowing Gas Engines, Large Powers[6]
- 1912 2130 HP Nuremberg-type gas engines for the railway power station, Kamata, near Yokohama.[7]
- 1923 Two Horizontal Rotative Engines for The West Cheshire Water Board (Prenton Station).
- 1929 - 1931 Three pumping engines supplied to Langford Pumping Station, Essex (see photo).
- 1951 Lilleshall Iron and Steel Co nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[8]
- 1954 Lilleshall Iron and Steel Co denationalised; sold to Lilleshall Co[9].
- 1961 Structural and mechanical engineers, manufacturers of rolled steel products, glazed bricks, sanitaryware, Spectra-Glaze and concrete products. 750 employees. [10]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- ↑ British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post, 6 February 1890
- ↑ Post Office London Trades Directory, 1891
- ↑ The Times, 9 December 1908; p. 19
- ↑ Engineering 20th September 1912
- ↑ Hansard 19 February 1951
- ↑ The Times, 15 December 1954
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE