Greenwood & Batley Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Greenwood, Thomas
- Batley, John
- Fairbairn Lawson
- Hunslet Holdings
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Mechanical engineering
Armaments & ammunition production exc warships, aircraft, cannon, hand guns and cartridges, swords, etc
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Mechanical engineering
Machine tool production
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Transport equipment production
Railway locomotive, rolling stock & components production & repair
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Mechanical engineering
Textile & wearing apparel making machinery production
Notes:
Traced origins to 1856 when established by Thomas Greenwood, d1873, and John Batley, both formerly employed by Sir Peter Fairbairn's Leeds based Wellington Engineering Works. Early on focused on silk and flax making machinery, later armaments making machinery, especially for small arms and including cartridge cases, and also general machine tools. Rapidly emerged as a leading engineering business making an exceptionally wide range of machinery for a broad range of industries. Incorporated 1888 as a public company when employed 1,500. Latterly also built light locomotives and produced ammunition. 1960s acquired by Fairbairn Lawson of Leeds, subsequently sold on to Hunslet Holdings and closed
Publications:
- British Machine Tool Industry, 1850-1914 by Floud, Roderick C
- Greenwood & Batley Locomotives, 1927-1980 by Booth, Adrian J
- 'Greenwood & Batley Ltd' in C W Harding, British Cartridge Manufacturers, Loaders and Retailers Including Ironmongers and Gunsmiths by Harding, C W
- 'Messrs Greenwood & Batley, Leeds' in Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain by Unknown
- Metal Working Machine Tool Industry in England, 1850-1914; with special reference to Greenwood & Batley Ltd by Floud, Roderick C
- Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance. British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century by Lloyd-Jones, Roger, Josephine Maltby, Myrddin J Lewis & Mark D Matthews
- 'Relationship between companies and their shareholders. Greenwood & Batley and Hadfields' in R Lloyd-Jones et al, Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance. British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century by Lloyd-Jones, Roger, Josephine Maltby, Myrddin J Lewis & Mark D Matthews
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Greenwood, Thomas
- Batley, John
- Fairbairn Lawson
- Hunslet Holdings
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Mechanical engineering Armaments & ammunition production exc warships, aircraft, cannon, hand guns and cartridges, swords, etc
- Mechanical engineering Machine tool production
- Transport equipment production Railway locomotive, rolling stock & components production & repair
- Mechanical engineering Textile & wearing apparel making machinery production
Notes:
Traced origins to 1856 when established by Thomas Greenwood, d1873, and John Batley, both formerly employed by Sir Peter Fairbairn's Leeds based Wellington Engineering Works. Early on focused on silk and flax making machinery, later armaments making machinery, especially for small arms and including cartridge cases, and also general machine tools. Rapidly emerged as a leading engineering business making an exceptionally wide range of machinery for a broad range of industries. Incorporated 1888 as a public company when employed 1,500. Latterly also built light locomotives and produced ammunition. 1960s acquired by Fairbairn Lawson of Leeds, subsequently sold on to Hunslet Holdings and closedPublications:
- British Machine Tool Industry, 1850-1914 by Floud, Roderick C
- Greenwood & Batley Locomotives, 1927-1980 by Booth, Adrian J
- 'Greenwood & Batley Ltd' in C W Harding, British Cartridge Manufacturers, Loaders and Retailers Including Ironmongers and Gunsmiths by Harding, C W
- 'Messrs Greenwood & Batley, Leeds' in Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain by Unknown
- Metal Working Machine Tool Industry in England, 1850-1914; with special reference to Greenwood & Batley Ltd by Floud, Roderick C
- Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance. British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century by Lloyd-Jones, Roger, Josephine Maltby, Myrddin J Lewis & Mark D Matthews
- 'Relationship between companies and their shareholders. Greenwood & Batley and Hadfields' in R Lloyd-Jones et al, Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance. British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century by Lloyd-Jones, Roger, Josephine Maltby, Myrddin J Lewis & Mark D Matthews