Tools, Ex Observatory workshop collection (AF).

New York based tool maker, specifically 'saw sets'.
See https://archive.org/details/TaintorPositiveSawSets1918 and https://archive.org/details/TaintorCareOfSaws1908, accessed 18/06/2021

Taintor Mfg Co

New York, New York state, United States, North and Central America

Tool maker in Buffalo, New York, known active c. 1900

Charles E Hall Co

Buffalo, Erie county, New York state, United States, North and Central America

London based maker of 'Tools and machines for woodworkers', established 1759, see https://archive.org/details/JBuckCatalogue/mode/2up, accessed 21/06/2021

J Buck (toolmaker)

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Alexander Mathieson and Son of Saracen Tool Works, East Campbell St., Glasgow. Edge Tool Makers.
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alexander_Mathieson_and_Son, access 23/11/2020

Alexander Mathieson and Son

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Maker of flower & textile tools in Birmingham England
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/W._and_C._Wynn_and_Co

W & C Wynn

Birmingham, Birmingham borough, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe

American toolmaker, founded second half of 19th century, absorbed by Dresser Industries in the 1960s. See http://alloy-artifacts.org/kraeuter-company.html#history, accessed 21/06/2021

Kraeuter

United States, North and Central America

1760 A business was set up in Sheffield by John Love, a draper, and a Mr. Manson, making use of the new material, crucible steel, to make saws.
Alexander Spear joined the business.
1774 Company established.
1775 The Partnership between John Love, Alexander Spear, and William Alexander (2), all of Sheffield in the County of York, Linen-drapers and Factors, was dissolved by mutual Consent; the said Business was continued by John Love and Alexander Spear.
1814 Company now run by John Spear, Alexander's nephew.
1820 The company were exporting saws to Europe and America. John Spear took Samuel Jackson as a partner. The firm became Spear, Jackson and Bramall.
1825 Spear, Jackson and Co, of Gibraltar Street, were saw manufacturers; Spear and Co of Gibraltar Street were file manufacturers; John Spear was a manufacturer of Western Bank, Sheffield[7]
1829 Dissolution of the Partnership between John Spear and Samuel Jackson, and the late George Cawthron, deceased, at Sheffield, in the County of York, as Manufacturers of Saws and Steel-Refiners; in future the same businesses will be carried on by the said John Spear and Samuel Jackson as Spear and Jackson.
1872 Patent to Robert Jackson and Joseph Burdekin Jackson, File and Steel Manufacturers, trading under the style or firm of Spear and Jackson, for an invention of "improvements in machinery or apparatus for cutting files."
1873 Dissolution of the Partnership between Robert Jackson (late of Carrysbrook, in the parish of Sheffield, in the county of York, who died on the 21st day of July, 1873) and Joseph Burdekin Jackson, of Tapton in the same parish, in the trades or businesses of Merchants, and Manufacturers of Files, Steel Saws, Edge Tools, Machine Knives, Agricultural Implements, and other Articles of Hardware, at Etna Works, in Saville-street East, in Sheffield aforesaid, and elsewhere, under the style or firm of Spear and Jackson; the business was carried on alone by the said Joseph Burdekin Jackson, under the said style or firm of Spear and Jackson
1905 Private company incorporated to acquire the business.
1937 Company made public. Arthur Kingsford Wilson was chairman and managing director; the board included Douglas Jackson Haggie, Leslie Jackson Coombe, Frederick Felix Gordon (technical director) and Harry John Wilson Marsh, plus 2 special directors. Subsidiary companies were Drabble and Sanderson and Edward and William Lucas as well as companies in USA and Canada.
1960 Acquired Brades and Nash Industries
1961 Manufacturers of steel saws, edge tools, spades, forks and shovels.
1967 Spearwell Tools was formed to merge the gardening and agricultural interests of Spear and Jackson and Eva Industries[21]; jointly owned by the 2 companies
1972 Spearwell Tools was merged with Spear and Jackson's hand tool division as Spear and Jackson (Tools)
1972 Acquired John Bedford and Sons as part of expanding the tools offering
1995 The new company was renamed Spear and Jackson plc.
1997 Acquired from Apax Partners by U.S. Industries, consumer products manufacturer, formerly part of Hanson
2007 Spear and Jackson exported to 115 countries and had subsidiary companies in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. After 245 years of production, Spear and Jackson's headquarters remains in Sheffield.
2020 Most Spear & Jackson products are made in the Far East.
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Spear_and_Jackson, accessed 21/06/2021

Spear & Jackson

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Toolmakers, Birmingham
also Thomas Chatwin and Co

1849 Business established
1856 The partnership of Goodby, Chatwin and Taylor was dissolved.
1861 Partnership dissolved. '...undersigned, Thomas Chatwin and Charles Taylor, as Stock Die and Tool Makers, at Birmingham, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent, as from the 25th instant. All debts will be received and paid by the said Thomas Chatwin...'[1]

1876 Mention of 'the premises called or known as the Victoria Works and now in the occupation of Thomas Chatwin of Birmingham Tool Manufacturer,'
1896/7 Directory: Listed as makers of steam boilers
1902 Screwing tackle
1915 Taken over by the Ministry of Munitions to supply gauges. The main output of the factory was small tools, taps and dies.
1937 Machined components. "Chatwin" Machined Components
By 1938 was part of J. Brockhouse and Co
Later part of Brockhouse Group
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Chatwin, accessed 22/06/2021

Thomas Chatwin

Tool makers based in Essex
c.1894 Business founded by William Beard Lake
c.1897 Edward Franklyn Elliot became a partner
1897 Mention of Lake and Elliot
1903 Legal dispute over the name 'Millennium'. Lake and Elliot of Albion Works, Braintree. 'Lake and Elliot, who are manufacturers of cycle tools and machinery, at the Albion Works, Braintree, applied in February, 1902, to register the word "Millennium" for certain vehicles. The application was opposed by Messrs. William Vernon Sons, millers, of Liverpool.'
1904-05 Produced motorcycles. The company was well known for its general engineering products for car and motorcycle repair work, sold under the Millennium label.
1911 Acquired Fitall Gear Co
1937 Engineers and founders.
1966 Acquired Cockburns
1972 Acquired Hindle Valves from Thomas Tilling
1983 Another foundry owned by the company was at Leven in Fife; this was subject to a management buy-out in 1983 and then traded as Glencast Ltd.
1986 The Braintree foundry was offered to Willam Cooks but no sale took place.
1987 Lake & Elliot Plc was acquired by Suter plc
1987 The company was sold to Mr Martyn Meade.
1990 Cooks closed the Paramount foundry at Braintree and moved the high alloy, heat resistant coatings and fittings business elsewhere in the group
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Lake_and_Elliot, accessed 22/06/2021

Lake & Elliot, Limited

Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom, Europe

1876 Company founded.
1899 Public company. The company was registered on 17 March, to take over the business of engineers and screw manufacturers of a private company of the same name.
1914 Screw manufacturers and metal merchants.
1937 Screw manufacturers
1961 Light engineers, manufacturing screws, nuts and bolts, wireless terminals, lubricator nipples, steel ball joint, carburettor components, cycle tyres, valves and safety razor frames.
1961 Subsidiaries included Datim Machine Tool Co and Wade Couplings
1961 Acquired by Delta Metal Co, converting a customer into a Delta subsidiary
c.1965 Acquired by GKN as a distributor of its products
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Davis_and_Timmins, accessed 24/06/2021

Davis & Timmins

H10479 Collection of tools, metal / wood, various makers, various places of production, various dates, used at the Sydney Observatory workshop, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

POWERHOUSE COLLECTION

Tools from the Sydney Observatory workshop

Object No. H10479

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