P. R. Jackson and Co
of Salford Rolling Mills, Salford, Manchester.
'Rolling Mills' refers to one of Jackson's chief products, equipment for rolling railway tyres, and not to the more common use of the term, i.e. the rolling of metal profiles.
The factory was located alongside the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal, with Hampson Street to the south, Oldfield Road to the west, and East Ordsall Lane to the East.[1]
1840 Company established by Peter Rothwell Jackson.
1848 The O.S. map[2] shows a modestly-sized building, in a large yard. The map shows a crane at the north wall of the building, and another crane on the canal wharf. This would allow heavy items to be transhipped to and from the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal. A short distance to the east was the River Irwell, reached via three sets of locks.
1851 Two awards at the 1851 Great Exhibition. See details at 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class V.
- Cast and machined gears.
- Rolling mills and machine tools for producing railway tyres.
1854 John Wilson was manager of the mills when they rolled the first steel tyre. Representatives of Krupps were present at the event[3]
1891 The company was registered on 19 September, to acquire the business and properties of the firm of the same name, steel and iron founders and engineers. [4]
1891 Released a catalogue of their Fly and Spur Wheels,&c.; Pistons and Piston Ring Steel. [5]
1894 Recruited Joseph Slater Lewis to equip and start a dynamo-making and electrical engineering department. Lewis was then appointed general manager of the entire business.
1906 Produced a complete railway tyre works for Yawata in Japan. [6]
1911 Produced a complete railway tyre and axle-making plant, including machine tools, for the Derwent Works of the Workington Iron and Steel Company. [7]
1914 Engineers. Specialities: tooth-wheel gearing, tyre-making plant, Ramsbottom piston rings, dynamos and motors, steel castings. Employees 600. [8]
1931 Acquired by David Brown and Sons. A 13-metre gear cutting machine, then the world's largest, was installed in the late 1960s. Most production ceased there in 1985, although the 13-metre machine continued until 1989.[9] The site has now been cleared.
1935 See P. R. Jackson and Co:1935 Review
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Godfrey Edition map: Lancashire Sheet 104.10: Manchester (SW) 1894 [1]
- ↑ The Godfrey Edition Old Ordnance Survey Town Plans: Manchester & Salford Sheet 27: New Bailey & Ordsall Lane [2]
- ↑ The Engineer 1896/01/03
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Engineer 1891/04/10
- ↑ Engineering magazine of 19th October 1906
- ↑ The Engineer of 19th May 1911
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ [3]Benzlers website