Machine tool manufacturers (1882-1928)

Joshua Buckton and Company Limited were a machine tool manufacturers based at Wellhouse Foundry, Meadow Road, Leeds. The company was established by Joshua Buckton in 1842. Joshua Buckton and Company was incorporated in 1882 to become Joshua Buckton and Company Limited. The same year Joseph Hartley Wicksteed succeeded Joshua Buckton as head of the firm. By 1914 they had 500 employees with specialities in heavy ordnance and turbine lathes, armour plate and turbine planing machines, universal testing machines of largest capacity and the Buckton testing machine. Mr. Buckton died in 1895 and Mr. Wicksteed became chairman of the company.

In 1928 the machine tool business was acquired by Craven Brothers; the staff transferred to Reddish where the products were manufactured.