Difference between revisions of "McKenzie and Holland"
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1884 [[John Orme Brettell]] joined the Worcester works | 1884 [[John Orme Brettell]] joined the Worcester works | ||
1885 Awarded prize at the Inventions Exhibition for railway signals, points, and crossings. | |||
1899 The [[Westinghouse Brake Co]] in conjunction with [[McKenzie and Holland]] was the first to introduce power signalling into Great Britain with the installation at Bishopsgate Street station on the [[Great Eastern Railway]]<ref>The Times, 15 August 1921</ref>. | 1899 The [[Westinghouse Brake Co]] in conjunction with [[McKenzie and Holland]] was the first to introduce power signalling into Great Britain with the installation at Bishopsgate Street station on the [[Great Eastern Railway]]<ref>The Times, 15 August 1921</ref>. | ||
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1909. Yarnton Signal Box For Great Western Railway.
Exhibit at Ingrow Loco Museum and Workshop, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
Railway signal engineers, of Westminster and Vulcan Iron Works, Worcester
Presumably successor to McKenzie, Clunes and Holland
1884 John Orme Brettell joined the Worcester works
1885 Awarded prize at the Inventions Exhibition for railway signals, points, and crossings.
1899 The Westinghouse Brake Co in conjunction with McKenzie and Holland was the first to introduce power signalling into Great Britain with the installation at Bishopsgate Street station on the Great Eastern Railway[1].
1907 Separate company formed to carry on this business: McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Co[2] which equipped the whole of the underground railways of London with power operated automatic signalling.
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