Business records of Craven Brothers Ltd, Salford, including minute books, annual reports, accounts, registers of shareholders, stock ledgers, salary ledgers, private account journals, works graphs, orders received, legal and estate documents, correspondence, catalogues, Craven Gazette, records of overseas agencies, contract records relating to Arcos Ltd, publicity photographs (including photographs of products by Shanks Brothers and Kendal and Gent), and newspaper cuttings, 1860-1967. Business archive for Craven Brothers Ltd, machine tool makers. 1860-1967
Two photographs of machine tools manufactured by Craven Brothers Limited, showing a giant double head ingot parting machine [1915] and a locomotive wheel lathe [1927]. Mounted on board. Photographs of machine tools manufactured by Craven Brothers Limited 1915-1927
Half a box of material, including handwritten notes from Gorton Evening Technical School, which illustrate the type of training engineering pupils underwent in Manchester at the beginning of the twentieth century. The collection also includes original photographic prints of the shop floor at Armstrong Whitworth's works, illustrating an engineering manufacturer's in the post-First World War period. The material relating to Craven Brothers includes publicity material and photographs of the works from the 1930s. Collection of papers and photographs relating to O. A. Partington's employment at Craven Brothers 1908-42
35 books containing detailed specifications and quotations for machine tools, plus two books of drawing office calculations. Craven Brothers, c1930-c1969 Craven Brothers Ltd order books circa 1930-circa 1969
Binder of black and white product photographs, brochures and engineering drawings. Kendal & Gent Limited, Gorton, Manchester, c.1960-1969. Also includes brochure for machine tools, Craven Brothers, Manchester, 1964. Photographs of machines and catalogue for Plano Milling manufactured by Kendall & Gent Ltd circa 1960-1969
Collection of trade literature from companies including Cunliffe & Croom, Craven Brothers and Kearns-Richards, c 1930-c 1989. The Cunliffe & Croom catalogue of machine tools dates from the 1930s and includes descriptions of planing machines and horizontal milling machines, amongst other machine tools manufactured by the company. The Craven Brothers brochure documents the range of machine tools manufactured in the 1960s, at a time when the company had already begun to reduce its operations. The Kearns-Richards brochures date from the 1970s and 1980s. Collection of machine tool trade literature 1930-1989
Papers relating to the education and career of William Owen, 1890-1955, including training certificates from the Royal Technical Institute, Salford, and blueprints and photographs of Owen’s work as a mechanical engineer and chief draughtsman at William Muir & Co and as Head of Research & Development at Craven Brothers. Papers of William Owen 1890-1955