Philip Hamlyn Williams - my history of British Manufacturing

Britain shaped the manufacturing world. A bold assertion, but is it true? My book How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World seeks to answer this question. The next question is what happened to British manufacturing? The result of my quest to find answers to that question is in Vehicles to Vaccines. I am now exploring Manufacturing places.

Showing posts with label Machine Tools. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Machine Tools. Show all posts

Friday, January 24, 2025

Halifax Manufacturing History

Halifax was known as a town of an hundred trades, yet its origins were similar to many other Yorkshire wool towns; it was the place that we...

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Manchester's 19th century tool makers

Manchester's booming cotton industry with its demands on mechanisation was the obvious place for an ambitious engineer to pursue his bus...

Coventry on the cusp of the twentieth century

Coventry was a city of engineering skills honed on watchmaking and it attracted first bicycle makers and then the first motor vehicle compan...

Friday, November 22, 2024

London's 19th century tool makers

For the Machine tools of various kinds had been used around the world for centuries; there is some evidence of a lathe being used in China i...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

A town created by the railways - Crewe

Crewe is the third town cited by Asa Briggs as created in the 19th century. It was created by the railways for the railways and Diane Drumm...

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Leicester Manufacturing History

My exploration of British manufacturing has been sector by sector and chronological. It is time now to begin to join up the dots and explor...

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