Difference between revisions of "McKenzie and Holland"
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1885 Awarded prize at the Inventions Exhibition for railway signals, points, and crossings. | 1885 Awarded prize at the Inventions Exhibition for railway signals, points, and crossings. | ||
1888 Death of the proprietor of the Vulcan Ironworks, [[Walter Holland]]<ref>National probate calendar</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>. | 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>. | ||
Revision as of 09:17, 24 February 2020
Railway signal engineers, of Westminster and Vulcan Iron Works, Worcester
c.1880 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.
1888 Death of the proprietor of the Vulcan Ironworks, Walter Holland[1]
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[2].
1907 Separate company formed to carry on this business: McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Co[3] which equipped the whole of the underground railways of London with power operated automatic signalling.