Richard Sutcliffe
From Graces Guide
of Chestnut House, Horbury, Wakefield
1905 Company founded.
1914 Mechanical Engineer. Specialities: mining engineering works, coal cutters, conveyors etc. [1]
1932 Private company.
1961 Mechanical handling plant (including hire and purchase facilities), conveyors and ancillary equipment. 700 employees. [2]
1968 Coal handling plant for the CEGB at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. [3]
1969 The mining machinery interests of Fletcher and Stewart were merged with those of Richard Sutcliffe and A. G. Wild and Co (owned by Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation) in a new company Fletcher Sutcliffe Wild, to supply self-advancing powered roof support systems and other mining machinery; it would be majority owned by Booker Group[4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer of 12th January 1968 p97
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Thursday, May 08, 1969