Appleby Brothers or Applebys of Southwark, London, and Greenwich, manufacturers of steam cranes, dredgers, brick making machinery, steam crabs, pile drivers, pumps, portable and stationary engines.
Formed by Charles James Appleby and Thomas Hodgson Appleby
1866 The works moved to East Greenwich.
1871 Supplied a 2' 8" gauge railway locomotive for Mr Robert Campbell's Buscot Park Estate [1]
1871 Employing 30 persons [2]
1876 T. H. Appleby leaves the partnership
1883 Beam pumping engine for Goulburn Waterworks, New South Wales. In steamable condition [3]
1889 Gold Mining Plant for Cerro de Pasco, Transvaal. (Appleby and Co of Greenwich) [4]
c.1898 Appleby Brothers was amalgamated with Joseph Jessop and Sons, trading as Jessop and Appleby Brothers
1900 Electrically worked jib crane for dockside unloading
c.1908 Jessop and Appleby Brothers amalgamated with the Glasgow Electric Crane and Hoist Co and the Temperley Transporter Co, trading as Applebys[5]
1908 Appleby's Ltd of Glasgow, Leicester and London, were commissioned to provide the crane for a floating crane being constructed by Vickers, Sons and Maxim for harbour of Montreal. Also supplying a crane for the fitting out basin of Yarrow and Co at Scotstoun[6].
1910 Appleby's Ltd went into voluntary liquidation, to be refinanced under the name The Appleby Crane and Transporter Co Ltd. Later that year the company was taken over by Sir William Arrol. The Leicester works was sold by Arrol in 1912 [7]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Engineering' 20th January 1871, p.43
- ↑ 1871 Census for THA
- ↑ [1]Goulburn Waterworks Museum website
- ↑ The Engineer of 15th Feb 1889 p133
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/03/23 p348
- ↑ The Times, 12 February 1908
- ↑ 'Railway Breakdown Cranes - The Story of Steam Breakdown Cranes on the Railways of Britain - Volume 1' by Peter Tatlow, Noodle Books, ISBN 978-1-906419-69-1
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816