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W. H. Allen, Sons and Co of Queen's Engineering Works, Bedford.
1880 Company established as W. H. Allen and Co by William Henry Allen at York Street Works, Lambeth, London.
1889 William took his son Richard into partnership.
1894 Queen's works constructed at Bedford; business moved there from Lambeth. Name changed to W. H. Allen Son and Company.
1894 Catalogue of Condensing plant. (W. H. Allen of Lambeth). [1]
1900 Incorporated as a limited company (W. H. Allen Son and Co Ltd). The company was registered on 29 July, to acquire a business of mechanical, hydraulic and electrical engineers. [2]
1900 Catalogue of two-crank enclosed compound engine. [3]
1900 Supplied condensing plant for the Port Dundas Electricity Supply Works in Glasgow (W. H. Allen and Son). [4]
1904 Supplied steam-driven centrifugal pump for Kobe Floating Dock, Japan. [5]. See photo.
1908 Two sets of irrigation pumps supplied to Egypt consisting of compound steam engines and a turbine pump in one case and a Conqueror pump in the other[6].
1914 Mechanical, hydraulic and electrical engineers. Specialities: high-speed steam engines, centrifugal pumps and pumping engines for irrigation, drainage etc.; auxiliary machinery in connection with warships and the mercantile marine; independent condensing plants, turbine pumps, motors and dynamo electric machinery. Employees 1,000. [7]
1920 Name changed to W. H. Allen Sons and Co Ltd.
1920 Four-cylinder hot-bulb heavy oil engine. Illustration and description. [8]
1920 Showed three sizes of their surface ignition engines working on the two-stroke cycle and using heavy oil at the Darlington Agricultural Show. [9]
1921-1933 period of losses by the business.
1922 Mr F. M. Jones formerly of the BTH and lately assistant manager of Boving and Co and Electro-Metals, joins the company.[10]
1924 Appointed Messrs. R. Norman Button and Co., of Central Chambers, High-street, Sheffield, to represent them in that district for the sale of their heavy fuel oil engines. The Sheffield firm was associated with Messrs. Allen's Manchester office in this connection. [11]
Post-WWI: The company was awarded £7,500 by the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors for a system of air supply for boiler rooms on ships[12]
1937 Mechanical, hydraulic and electrical engineers.
1944 Producing five, six and eight cylinder diesel engines for the railways.
1944 Producing a range of engines for marine use with two to eight cylinders and 27 to 350 bhp.
Producing the T47 of three to eight cylinders
1952 Converted into public company[13]. Approximately 2400 employees[14].
1956 Share issue to finance expansion at Bedford and new factory at Pershore.
1957 Substantial new business in pumps for nuclear power stations and generators for nuclear submarines, in addition to existing business for shipbuilding and industrial plant, including steam turbines, gas turbines, epicyclic gears, a.c. machines[15].
1960 W. H. Allen, Sons and Co acquired William Foster and Co, including its wholly owned subsidiary Gwynnes Pumps Ltd[16].
1961 Mechanical, electrical and hydraulic engineers handling power plants including diesel engines, steam turbines, steam engines and condensing-feed systems, pumping plant, electrical equipment including generators and switchgear, gearing and marine electrical generating plant, pumping plant, electrical equipment, air supply to boiler rooms and gearing. 2,500 employees. [17]
1961 Company now organised around 5 product groups: Turbines, Pumps, Diesel, Electrical, and Gearing, each of which was self-contained[18].
1962 With Clarke, Chapman and Co, jointly purchased Nelson Engineering Company, makers of smaller electric motors which would be supplied to the 3 companies. Acquired most of the shares in J. P. Hall and Sons[19].
1963 Acquired licence to make and sell electrical machines using Brown, Boveri and Co designs. Reorganisation on divisional basis with turbine, diesel and electrical machinery in Bedford division, gearing in Pershore, hydraulics in Lincoln division. Gwynnes Pumps at Lincoln renamed Allen Gwynne Pumps, with staff transferred to Lincoln from Bedford and Hammersmith, and premises sold. Fall in demand for Hall's products so business amalgamated with Pershore[20].
1960s developed epicyclic gears for use with Stal-Laval's A.P. series of marine turbines[21]
1967 Talks between W. H. Allen, Sons and Co, Mather and Platt and G. and J. Weir about rationalisation of pumps businesses eventually failed to reach agreement after almost 1 year[22].
1968 Supplied diesel alternator sets for the Winfrith power station[23]
1968 Merger of W. H. Allen, Sons and Co and Belliss and Morcom; new holding company known as The Amalgamated Power Engineering Company Ltd (APE) would be owned 60:40 by Allen's and Belliss's shareholders[24].
1989 Became part of Rolls-Royce
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 27th April 1894 p360
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Engineer of 23rd February 1900. p264
- ↑ The Engineer of 14th September 1900 p253
- ↑ [[1]] The Engineer, 22nd July 2004
- ↑ The Times, 6 May 1908
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 12th March 1920 p278
- ↑ The Engineer of 9th July 1920
- ↑ The Engineer 1922/05/05.
- ↑ The Engineer 1924/07/25
- ↑ The Times, Jan 13, 1925
- ↑ The Times, 13 October 1952
- ↑ The Times, 24 October 1952
- ↑ The Times, 25 June 1957
- ↑ The Times, 19 June 1961
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, 19 June 1961
- ↑ The Times, 19 June 1962
- ↑ The Times, 25 June 1963
- ↑ The Times Jun 01, 1967
- ↑ The Times, 18 January 1967
- ↑ The Engineer of 8th March 1968 p399
- ↑ The Times, 17 February 1968
- The Modern Diesel edited by Geoffrey Smith. Published by Iliffe & Sons 1944
- A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5