Title
Glass plate negatives of machines produced by the Churchill Machine Tool Co. Ltd
Reference
YMS0693
Production date
1904 - 1925
Scope and Content
Approximately 4 drawers of glass plate negatives
Extent
c2500 negatives
Language
English
Archival history
Provenance unknown. The collection was originally listed as part of the Mather and Platt glass plate negatives of MS0094. However, Churchill has no connection with Mather and Platt, and there is no obvious reason why Mather and Platt should have held a collection of Churchill images. It was therefore concluded that the Churchill collection had been mistakenly included in MS0094, and it was separated and allocated a new MS number.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Churchill Machine Tool Co. Ltd.BiographyBiography
The Churchill Machine Tool Company was established, intially under the name Charles Churchill and Co. in Salford, before moving to Pendleton and eventually to Broadheath, Altrincham. The company number was 00563431.
The Churchill Machine Tool Co was incorporated in 1906 by Charles Churchill of the Charles Churchill Company. By June of that year there were nearly 200 machine tools under construction at the factory and in 1907 the company already needed to enlarge its factory.
In 1918 the company acquired land at Broadheath in Altrincham, and by 1920 the firm had moved all production to the new location.
By 1961 Churchill was specialising in the manufacture of precision grinding machines. By this time the company employed 1,200 people. In the same year the company was bought by BSA and became known as BSA-Churchill Machine Tools Ltd. The business merged in 1966 with Alfred Herbert, and by 1967 had reverted to its previous name.
The firm finally wound down in the early 1970s. The factory at Broadheath closed in 1972 and the business entered liquidation in 1973. A company using The Churchill Machine Tool Co name remains active as of 2020, but Charles Churchill & Co no longer exists.
Subject
Machine tools
Conditions governing access
Open access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.
Related object
- Collection of Churchill Trade Catalogues and Photographs of Machine ToolsNotesNotes
- Papers of a Churchill Machine Tool Co. Comptometer OperatorNotesNotes
System of arrangement
The collection was previously mistakenly included in MS0094. As the Churchill images have no collection with Mather & Platt, they have been separated, and given the new reference MS0693.