Adcock and Shipley
of Machine Tool Works, Bright Street, Leicester
1914 Company founded.
1917 Advert for drilling machines. [1]
1919 Advert for drilling machines. [2]
1937 Drilling machines and machine tools. "Ace" Machine tools. "Lester" Machine Tools. "Rex" Machine Tools. [3]
1940 Became private company.
1961 Manufacturers of machine tools, including centering, cutting off, drilling, milling, slotting and lens grinding machines. 280 employees. [4]
1968 Horizontal milling machine.
See Also
- The Engineer 1949 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1950 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1951 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1952/09/12 Supplement
- The Engineer 1952 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1953 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1954 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1955 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1955 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1956 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1958 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1959 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1960 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1960 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1961 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1964 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1964 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1966 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1967 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1968 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1968/08/02 p185
Sources of Information
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p134
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p172
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE