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Revision as of 07:26, 26 April 2009
Kendall and Gent of Victoria Works, Springfield, Salford. Machine tool makers.
- 1849 Company established.
- 1873 (1 volume; in German) Illustrated sales catalogue.
- 1876 Details of their screwing machine with releasing motion. [1]
- 1900 Plano-milling machine and others at the Paris exhibition. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'. [2]
- 1904 Incorporated as a limited company.
- 1911 Produced a Break Lathe; screwing machine.
- 1914 Machine tool makers. Specialities: patent screwing and tapping machines, Dixon's patent radial drilling and tapping machines, milling machines, cutter grinding machines. [3]
- 1920 Public company.
- 1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with milling machines. [4]
- 1944 Name changed.
- 1961 Machine tool makers. [5]
Sources of Information
- [1] Manchester Archives
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- ↑ The Engineer of 17th November 1876 p349
- ↑ The Engineer of 7th September 1900 p237
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 24th September 1920 p295
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE