George Swift and Sons

Lathe in use in Chennai, India in 2012.

February 1901.

January 1902.

1903. Boring and Facing Machine.

October 1912. Radial Drill.

1917.

1918.

1927. Locomotive Connecting - Rod Drilling Machine.

May 1950.

1952.

February 1959.

1956.

Craven-Swift lathe

George Swift of Claremont Ironworks, Halifax.

1900 Issued catalogue of machine tools including drillers, shaping and grinding machines, lathes. The works have just doubled in size.

1917 Advert as Machine Tool Makers.

1919 Advert as Machine Tool Makers.

1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with machine tools.

1937 Machine tool manufacturers.

1956 Acquired by Asquith Machine Tool Corporation together with Swift-Summerskill of Sowerby Bridge

1970 Part of Staveley Industries's Machine Tools Division, as Craven-Swift

1970 Faced with continued losses in machine tools, the Craven-Swift Division was closed

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Sources of Information

• The Engineer of 6th July 1900 p17
• Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p224
• Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p255
• The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p244
• 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries