Fielding and Platt

Cape Town at the Silos in the harbour (2018)

April 1870.

January 1872.

1872.

1872. Oscillating engine.

June 1872. Schmid's patent water engine and pump.

1874.

1875.

1877.

1879.

1880.

January 1880.

1881. Hydraulic Flanging and Straightening Machine: Tweddell's System.

1882. Exhibits at the Naval and Submarine Exhibition.

1885. High pressure pumping engines.

1885. Tweddell's 150 ton rivetting machine.

1885. Tweddell's 150 ton rivetting machine.

January 1888.

1891.

1893.

1893. Gas engine, 100 indicated horse power.

1894.

1894. Pumping engines for Castle Eden Colliery.

1895.

1896.

1897.

1897. 100 hP Gas Engine at The 1897 Brussels Exhibition.

January 1902.

1902.

1903. 150 hp Vertical Gas Engine.

1903. Plate Bending Machine.

1904. Hydraulic draw benches, Ferry Works, Queensferry.

January 1906.

1906.

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1907.

1908.

1908.

1909. 2.5 and 7 hp lampless oil engines.

1909. 24 hp Suction gas engine.

1909. Hydraulic pumping engines for Japan.

1911.

1911.

1914. Crude oil engine.

1917.

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1918.

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1918.

c1920. 20-hp 200rpm paraffin engine. Exhibit at Amberley Working Museum.

1921.

1921.

Fielding oil engine at National Waterways Museum, Gloucester

1926. Hydraulic Machines and Pneumatic Rivetters.

1926. Heavy Oil Engines.

1928.

1933. 1500 Ton Press for Heavy Motor Chassis. For Rubery, Owen and Co.

Dec 1939.

1942.

1943.

1943. Hydraulic Presses.

May 1943

November 1944.

1960.

March 1968.

1969.

1973.

Fielding and Platt, hydraulic engineers, of Atlas Ironworks, Gloucester.

Note: A superb history of the company, with numerous illustrations, is available online

formerly Samuel Fielding was in partnership with John Gillett at the Atlas Ironworks

1866 Company founded by Samuel Fielding and James Platt.

1871 Sole manufacture of Tweddell's hydraulic riveting machines,

1873 Made the first hydraulic portable riveting machinery for the Primrose Street Railway Bridge of the Great Eastern Railway at Bishopsgate Street Station, London, which proved a great success.

1875 Maker of Tweddell's hydraulic rivetter

1880 Produced their first gas engine with sizes from 3hp to 8hp

1881 Produced the Uniflow engine

1884 Rope-driven overhead crane produced

1889 Paris Exhibition. Hydraulic plant.

1892 Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition. 8-hp and 14-hp horizontal gas engine based on Otto principle.

1894 Coupled Horizontal Tandem Pumping Engines for Castle Eden Colliery. Article and illustrations in 'The Engineer'.

1894 June. Took part in the Royal Agricultural Society’s Competitive Trial of Oil Engines. 8.0 bhp fixed engine and a portable engine. Article in ‘The Engineer’.

1894 Antwerp Exhibition. Awarded Gold Medal for Large Mechanical Constructions.

1895 Private company.

1895 After the death of Mr. Tweddell the company took over all the rights connected with his hydraulic machinery.

1898 Introduced a lampless oil engine

c1901 Produced the prototype mechanically-powered vacuum cleaner for Hubert Cecil Booth

1908 Producing the Safety oil engine in sizes up to 60 bhp (single) and 120 bhp (twin)

1908 Gas engines and gas producers

1911 Manufacturer of Flanging Presses (Tweddell's System); Forging Presses; Hydraulic Machinery for the Railways.

1911 Gun-straightening machine for Italy.

1911 Smithfield Club Show. Exhibited gas and oil engines plus a suction gas plant and a combined engine and pump. .

1912 A low-pressure heavy oil engine introduced

c1928 A range of vertical high-speed engine introduced producing 50 hp (twin), 100 hp (four) and 150 hp (six cylinder) versions

1937/8 The company was taken over by Brush; the engines part was merged with Petters

1939 Heenan and Froude acquired the remaining assets of Fielding and Platt, essentially the hydraulics business.

1961 Engineers, specialising in hydraulic machinery, presses, pumps and accumulators. 620 employees.

1965 Supplied high-energy rate drop forging machines (the first in Britain) made under licence from General Dynamics of USA

1968 Hydraulic extrusion press for the UKAEA.

1968 Formation of Redman Heenan International.

1978 Sole UK licence holder for USI-Clearing of Chicago, the largest manufacturer of metal and plastic forming processes in the world.

1982 Disposal of Fielding and Platt by Redman Heenan International anticipated.

1986 Fielding & Platt enters voluntary receivership. Clayton, Son & Co. (Holdings) Ltd. bought the company from the Receivers.

1994 Motherwell Bridge Group took over the Clayton Group.

1999 Fielding & Platt name dropped in favour of MB Material Handling Systems incorporting MB Nuclear and FPI (MB = Motherwell Bridge).

2000 End of manufacturing at Gloucester. An office was retained.

2003 Gloucester office closed.

See Also

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Sources of Information

• The Engineer of 6th July 1894 p9 & p25
• The Engineer of 2nd November 1894 p387