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Edward Green and Son of Wakefield and Manchester
1821 Established by Edward Green, Senior[1]
1826 Company founded.
1845 Green's Economiser was invented [2]
1851 Employing 30 men.[3]
1861 Employing 200 persons.[4]
1894 Antwerp Exhibition. Fuel economiser. Awarded Diploma of Honour for Large Mechanical Constructions [5] [6]
1895 130,000 Green's Economisers had been installed[7]
1913 A complete reorganisation of the Wakefield works, said to be the largest of its kind in the world, was underway[8]
1914 Manufacturers of fuel economisers for steam boilers to utilise waste heat in flue gasses, boiler feed pumps and small horizontal steam engines, air heaters. Employees 1,000. [9]
1923 Sir Edward Green (1831-1923), son of the founder, died[10]. His elder son, Edward Lycett Green, succeeded to the title. His second son, Francis Green who had started with the company in 1880, became chairman[11]
1927 Economiser. [12]
1933 Private company formed to acquire a company of similar name[13]
1933 A group of employees left the company to form a rival business, Senior Economisers
1958 Public company[14]
1960 Acquired Spurr, Inman and Co[15]
1961 Manufacturers of fuel economisers, air heaters and all types of heat exchangers, industrial dust collectors, mechanical draught fans and specialised castings. 1,000 employees. [16]
1966 Diversification into other markets than large stationary plant with order from Norwegian shipbuilder for 7 economiser units to fit to diesel engine exhausts[17]
1968 Company results reported as Green's Economisers. E. Green and Son became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Green's Economisers.
1971 Expansion into air-cooled heat exchangers for the chemical industry[18]
1975 Acquired the ammonia-systems unit of Albright and Wilson, based in Wakefield[19].
1983 Senior acquired Green's Economiser Group plc
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Mar 31, 1923
- ↑ The Times, Dec 01, 1913
- ↑ 1851 Census
- ↑ 1861 Census
- ↑ The Engineer of 1st June 1894 p469
- ↑ The Engineer of 2nd November 1894 p387
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Mar 26, 1895
- ↑ The Times, Dec 01, 1913
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times, Mar 31, 1923
- ↑ The Times, Mar 23, 1954
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p116
- ↑ The Times, Sep 01, 1933
- ↑ The Times, Aug 11, 1958
- ↑ The Times, Feb 06, 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Sep 14, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Oct 14, 1971
- ↑ The Times, Sep 15, 1975