William Muir and Co

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Lathe 2670 still in use in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (South India). (2012).

Lathe 2670 still in use in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (South India). (2012). (Detail).

1847.

1852.

January 1866.

1874.

1876.

January 1880.

1885. Exhibit at Darlington Railway Museum.

December 1889.

June 1898.

August 1899.

1899.

Slotting machine exhibited at Amberley Working Museum.

February 1901.

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1902.

1907.

1907.

1907.

1907.

1909. Headstock of turbine rotor lathe.

1909.102 inch turbine rotor lathe.

1909.

1921.

1922.

1922.

1932 (from ‘A Shipbuilding History’)

1947. Light machine shop before re-organisation.

1947. Light machine shop after re-organisation.

Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum. No.1688 lathe.

Muir travelling head shaper serves a supporting role while awaiting restoration at Wortley Top Forge

W. Muir and Co Engineers and machinists, of Britannia Works, Sherbourne Street, Salford (Manchester).

1842 Company established when William Muir left Whitworths in June and established a workshop in Berwick Street, Manchester, where he had room for a small forge, his lathe, and a bench.

Outgrew the Berwick Street accommodation and then, jointly with Mr. Edmondson, Muir occupied a large building in Miller's Lane, Salford. Mr. Edmondson occupied the top floor as a Railway Ticket Printing Office; Muir manufactured the printing, dating, and other machines, as well as conducting business as a machine-tool maker.

1851 Exhibited at Great Exhibition.

1852 Muir was asked to supply the Woolwich Arsenal with machinery for making interchangeable rifle sights; and with business increasing, he built the Britannia Works in Sherborne Street, Strangeways, and took on partners.

1862 Exhibited at London Exhibition.

1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: machine tools for shipbuilders, armament works, engine works etc. Employees 450.

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