Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co
From Graces Guide
of Trafford Park, Manchester
- 1899 Company established and incorporated as a limited company. The company was registered on 11 April. [1]
- 1911 Electrical Exhibition. Electrical drive for a planing machine by Joshua Buckton and Co [2]
- 1912 Makers of variable speed electric drives for machine tools.
- 1914 Manufacturers of the patent automatic reversible booster and patent fly-wheel system for colliery winding and for equalizing tramway loads. Employees 1,000. [3]
- 1917 Alternator. 20 kva. Exhibit at Bradford Industrial Museum
- 1920 May. Came to an arrangement with Crypto Electrical Co on motor production. [4]
- 1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with motors for machine tool driving. [5]
Sources of Information
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Engineer of 13th October 1911 p388
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th May 1920 p564
- ↑ The Engineer of 3rd September 1920 p233