Maker of various models of medal winning lawn mowers and other horticultural, agricultural and domestic machinery. The company was eventually absorbed by the Qualcast lawn mower comany in 1938.

1863-?, ironmongers and plumbers merchants, Manchester, England. Founded in Salford in 1863 by Laban Baxendale and his future brother-in-law, Alfred Innes. In 1892, the company moved to Shudehill Mill (commonly known as Arkwright's Mill) in Miller Street, Manchester. The mill was later destroyed in the 1940 Manchester Blitz. A listing in 'Whitaker's Red Book of Commerce or Who's Who in Business' published in 1914 identifies Baxendale's as being 'Lead manufacturers, brass founders, furniture manufacturers, electrical manufacturers, glass bevellers and silverers, embossers and lead light workers, sanitary, gas, water, steam and electric fittings, hardware merchants, oil and paint warehousemen, plumbers', decorators' and builders' merchants etc.' At the time, the firm had 1,250 employees.

Manufacturers of machinery for the production and bottling of soft drinks also manufacturing chemist for the various oils, essences and acids used in the flavouring and production of soft drinks.