Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

H. W. Kearns and Co

From Graces Guide
Revision as of 10:54, 28 May 2013 by WendyM (talk | contribs)
1908.
1908.
1908.

‎‎

Shaping Machine. 1909.

‎‎

Front View Of Shaping Machine. 1909.

‎‎

Side View Of Shaping Machine. 1909.
1910.
1913.
1922.Large Surfacing and Boring Machine.
Aug 1935. Great Western RailwayGWR Centenary.

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.

1968 Staveley Industries rationalised its machine tool division, including giving responsibility for horizontal table borers to Kearns[1]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Feb 20, 1968