Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day
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1927 air blast diesel engine at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
Exhibit at the Museu de Electricidade, Madeira
of Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire (now Greater Manchester). Telephone: Great Moor 2615. Telegraphic Address: "Economy, 'Phone, Hazel Grove"
- see Mirrlees for history -
- 1840 The origins of the Mirrlees Company date back to 1840, when three Glasgow brothers, Peter, William and Andrew McOnie, set up a firm to manufacture cane sugar processing machinery. This under the title P. and W. McOnie. When J. B. Mirrlees became a partner on the resignation of William (later Sir William McOnie, Lord Provost of Glasgow) the firm became McOnie and Mirrlees.
- 1889 As the partners either retired or died so the name of the company changed until in 1889 it had become Mirrlees, Watson and Yaryan Co.
- 1898 The firm was again reconstructed as Mirrlees, Watson and Co, with Charles Day a manager. It was he who developed engine manufacturing. They supplied the first diesel engine to be installed in a naval ship.
- 1908 Charles Day and H. N. Bickerton formed a new company solely for engine production, called Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day. A new factory was built at a small village called Hazel Grove, on the outskirts of Stockport.
- 1937 Listed Exhibitor. Automatic Stokers for Boilers, Central Heating and Industrial Furnaces. Circulation Pumps, for central heating. Centrifugal Pumps, for all purposes. Mirlees "Imo" Rotary Pumps, for oil pressure up to 3,000 pounds. (Stand No. B.420) [1]
- 1944 Private company.
- Post-WWII. After the Second World War, Mirrlees became a member of the Associated British Oil Engines group of companies which Hawker Siddeley subsequently acquired in 1961.
- 1961 Diesel engineers, manufacturing diesel oil engines, diesel electric generating sets and diesel locomotives and marine engines. 1,850 employees. [2]
- Mirrlees was merged with H. N. Bickerton’s old firm, National Gas and Oil Engine Co to form Mirrlees National Ltd.
Notes
The first british diesel engine Mirrlees No 1 now resides at the Anson Engine Museum
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Sources of Information
- [1] Old Engine Website