Hulse and Co of Salford, Manchester.
Also known as J. S. Hulse and Co
1852 Firm founded by Joseph Sykes Hulse.
1863 Listed as Joesph Sykes Hulse, Engineer and manufacturer of all kinds of engineers' tools, &c., Ordsal Works, Calder Street, Salford[1]
1881 J. S. Hulse retired and his brother William Wilson Hulse took charge.
Pre-1894 Lathe with 6' 6" dia faceplate and taking 14 ft between centres installed at J. I. Thornycroft's yard at Chiswick [2]
1894 Davies' Plural drilling machine for locomotive boilers. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'
1894 Quadruple-geared duplex crank lathe for William Jessop and Son. Illustration.
1896 Hulse open-sided planing machine featured in the American Machinist, who credited the origin of the type to Richards of Manchester, but William Wilson Hulse wrote to the magazine to point out that he had patented it on 9 June 1865 (Pat. No. 1571) [3]
1900 Article and illustrations on their Belleville Boiler-Making Machinery
1911 Lathe for turning large turbine drums up to 13 ft 4" diameter, 40 ft 6" long built for the Darlington Forge Co.
1912 Description of an extension to their premises in The Engineer, which included two large new erecting shops [4]
1920 Large Crank-Shaft Turning Machine
1920 Were suppliers of machine tools
Hulse's Ordsall (Ordsal) Works was originally bounded by the River Irwell, Calder Street, Lower Seddon Street and the Regent Iron Works of Thomas Gadd. In c.1895 they took over the premises of the Regent Iron Works, which faced onto Regent Road.
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Engineer of 31st August 1894 p190
- The Engineer of 1st June 1894 p480 & p484
- The Engineer of 28th December 1900 p643
- The Engineer of 1st October 1920 p340
- The Engineer of 2nd April 1920 p352 & p358
- The Engineer of 1st September 1911 p240