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Advert from Engineering. Vol: 180, No: 4688 – …

Posted on 27/05/2018 by

Old engineering Posted in 1955, advertising, boilers, durham, engineering, vintage

Advert from Engineering.
Vol: 180, No: 4688 – December 2nd 1955
Clarke, Chapman & Co of Durham
Boilers and power station equipment

Advert from Engineering. Vol: 180, No: 4688 – …

Posted on 26/05/2018 by

Old engineering Posted in 1955, advertising, data recording, engineering, manchester, vintage

Advert from Engineering.
Vol: 180, No: 4688 – December 2nd 1955
Budenberg Gauge Co of Manchester
Data recorders

Advert from Engineering. Vol: 180, No: 4688 – …

Posted on 25/05/2018 by

Old engineering Posted in 1955, advertising, chester, controllers, drivers, engineering, motors, vintage

Advert from Engineering.
Vol: 180, No: 4688 – December 2nd 1955
Brookhirst of Chester
Motor controllers and drives

Advert from Engineering. Vol: 180, No: 4688 – …

Posted on 31/03/2018 by

Old engineering Posted in 1955, advertising, atomic, engineering, leeds, locomotives, vintage

Advert from Engineering.
Vol: 180, No: 4688 – December 2nd 1955
Hudswell, Clarke & Co of Leeds
Locomotives

Founded in 1860 as Hudswell and Clarke and continued trading until the 1960s. Several of their steam locomotives are still in use or preserved as museum pieces. The company was involved in military work during the early atomic era and produced the framework of the majority of early British atomic bombs.

Advert from Engineering. Vol: 180, No: 4688 – …

Posted on 30/03/2018 by

Old engineering Posted in 1955, advertising, coventry, dryers, engineering, machine tools, pulverisers, vintage

Advert from Engineering.
Vol: 180, No: 4688 – December 2nd 1955
Alfred Herbert of Coventry
Drying and pulverising equipment

The company was founded in 1888 and at one time was the largest machine tool manufacturer in the UK and one of the largest in the world. It went into recievership in the 1982 and failed a year later.