Title
Engineering drawings produced by Daniel Adamson & Co. Ltd.
Reference
YMS0634
Production date
1877 - 1965
Creator
- Daniel Adamson & Co LtdBiographyBiography
The company was founded in 1842 by Daniel Adamson and established an iron works at Newton Moor near Dukinfield. Specialised in the construction of turbines for power generating, boilers, super heaters and fusion welded pressure vessels. It became a private company in 1914 and was made public in 1951. In 1964 the company was sold to Acrow (Engineers).
Scope and Content
Engineering plans for boilers and parts, produced for various companies.
Extent
253 items
Archival history
Provenance unknown
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- The North Eastern Marine Engineering Co LtdBiographyBiography
Marine engineering company based in Sunderland and Wallsend-on-Tyne, established in 1865. The company was known to still be active in 1961.
- East Midlands Gas BoardBiographyBiography
The East Midlands Gas Board was established on 1st May 1949 as part of the nationalised gas industry, reporting the Ministry of Fuel and Power. It covered Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. On 31st December 1972 it would be dissolved and became part the British Gas Corporation.
- Manchester UniversityBiographyBiography
Manchester University was the popular name used for the Victoria University of Manchester, constituted in 1904.
Manchester University emerged from the federal Victoria University, which included colleges in Liverpool and Leeds alongside Owens College in Manchester. In 1900 the colleges of the Victoria University separated and in 1904 Owens College was reconstituted as the Victoria University of Manchester, though it was often known simply known as Manchester University, or Owens.
In 2004 Manchester University, under its formal name the Victoria University of Manchester, combined with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to become known as The University of Manchester.
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open access
Conditions governing Reproduction
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