Hydraulic and general engineers, of Luton and Whitecross Street, London EC.
of 99 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC.
of 84 and 85 Whitecross Street, St. Luke's, London E.C.[1].
of Luton and East Kilbride (1956).
1815 Company founded. Company established by W. Russell who was succeeded by Hayward-Tyler.
1856 Company was purchased by Robert Luke Howard.
1866 Advert: Makers of Bramah's original soda water machine.
1873 William Last (later director of the Science Museum) joined the company, which was described as successors to celebrated Bramah[2].
1876 Steam pumping engine. Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham. [3]
1882 Supplied six water tank wagons with a boiler and two direct-acting pumps to the Cape Colonies Railways. These were to be used for taking water to outlying stations, and for washing out boilers. [4]
1888 Steam-pump Factory Fire engine.
1889 Rider hot-air engine shown at the RASE at Windsor. [5]
1894 Geared High-Lift Pumps. Illustration in 'The Engineer'. [6]
1894 Catalogue of electrical parts for lighting of houses, factories, mines and ships etc. [7]
1900 Details of machine for bottling beers. [8]
1905 Private company. Incorporated as a private limited company.
1914 Hydraulic and sanitary engineers. Specialities: aerated water machinery, pumping machinery, hydraulic presses, steam, fire, sanitary and water fittings, meters for household purposes. [9]
1956 Platt Brothers bought a controlling interest in the private company Hayward Tyler and Co[10].
1961 Engineers, manufacturing oil process pumps, atomic circular pumps, submersible pumps, also motors and steam turbines. 500 employees. [11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1876/10/06
- ↑ The Times 9 August 1911
- ↑ The Engineer of 14th July 1876 p32 and p40
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 7th July 1882
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th June 1889 p546
- ↑ The Engineer of 9th March 1894 p205
- ↑ The Engineer of 14th September 1894 p238
- ↑ The Engineer of 7th December 1900 p565
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times, 12 November 1956
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE