H. W. Kearns and Co

H. W. Kearns of Atlantic Street, Broadheath, Altrincham, were makers of machine tools.
1907 Private company founded by Henry Ward Kearns
1927 Henry Ward Kearns the founder died and his sons Joseph Richard Carden Kearns and H. W. L. Kearns took over
1937 Machine tool manufacturers. "Kearns" Horizontal Boring Machines.
1955 Company made public.
1961 Machine toolmakers, manufacturing universal horizontal surfacing, boring, milling, drilling and tapping machines. 480 employees.
1967 Kearns-Richards was formed when Staveley Industries bought H. W. Kearns and Co. Ltd and merged it with George Richards and Co, key companies in the Broadheath machine tool manufacturing industry. It became part of Staveley Machine Tools.
1968 Staveley Industries rationalised its machine tool division, including giving responsibility for horizontal table borers to Kearns[1]
- Double-spindle horizontal boring machine.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Feb 20, 1968
- Machine Tools by James Weir French in 2 vols. Published 1911 by Gresham
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries