Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Constructional Engineering Co

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1940.
1960

of Titan Works, Birmingham.

1911 Company formed by W. H. Wood and D. H. Wood

1922 Products included: Cupolas, foundry ladles, charging platforms, shaking barrels, air receivers, runways moulding boxes, sand blast plant, foundry requisites

1926 July. Orders received from Falkirk Iron Co, Excelsior Foundry Co, Newton, Chambers and Co and Brown and Green.

1926 November. Introduced a new material "Titanite", a new patternmaking material in the form of a kind of stone powder which when mixed in the right proportions with the proper liquid, could be poured into a mould, and after allowing from four to six hours for setting, will give a pattern plate which in appearance strongly resembled marble, but with a surface that could be readily finished by means of a file or sandpaper.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1926/11/12