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Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company Limited of Hubert Street, Leeds Road, Bradford, Yorkshire, electrical engineers, manufactured small and large motors, alternators and generators at their Thornbury works. They briefly manufactured major aircraft components during the later half of World War I. Their London offices were at 17 Victoria Street, Westminster SW. The business was operating from the Hubert Street Bradford address in late 1895 making arc lamps and electrical instruments. By 1900 they were on record for the manufacture of small rotating electric machinery for the textile industry.〔Page 10, ''Jane's World Railways,'' Jane's Yearbooks, 1956〕 A limited liability company was incorporated to own the business in June 1903 under the same name. The company itself was voluntarily wound up 11 June 1923 following the 1921 transfer of all its assets to post-1918 owner English Electric where its operations continued. ==History== A Phoenix dynamo was a type of dynamo designed by W B Esson when he was manager of manufacturer Paterson & Cooper (Edward James Paterson & Charles F Cooper) who were electrical engineers of Glasgow and Dalston. Paterson & Cooper ceased operating in 1895〔page 838, ''The Edinburgh Gazette'', 22 August 1896, issue 10809〕 and their business was resumed by Paterson Cooper & Co Limited of London and Paisley. Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company (an unincorporated firm or partnership) of Hubert Street, Leeds Road was active by 1895 manufacturing arc lamps and electrical instruments.〔Clerks, Assistants, Etc wanted, ''Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser'', page 2, Friday 13 December 1895〕 By 1900 Phoenix Dynamo were manufacturing small motors and dynamos for driving machinery and providing lighting specifically for the textile industry but they soon found wider markets and manufactured large motors, turbines, turbo-generators etc. and were also engaged on Admiralty and War Office assignments.〔U.S. consular reports, Special, Issues 61-71, 1913〕 In February 1903 Phoenix Dynamo purchased the whole of the works, business and patent rights of Bradford's Rosling & Fynn Limited (in liquidation) and announced that after some extensions to the buildings were complete those operations would be consolidated at Thornbury.〔Headline: COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL ITEMS. '':Yorkshire Evening Post'', Thursday 05 February 1903〕 In June 1903 it was announced that a limited liability company had been incorporated, Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company Limited, with a capital of £60,000 to acquire the business of electrical engineers and contractors carried on by the firm known as Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company (Charles Brooke Crawshaw, Herbert Alexander Jones (manager)) at Thornbury Works, Bradford.〔C B Crawshaw 1855-1929 of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and Crawshaw & Warburton owned a number of collieries, H A Jones ran Phoenix Dynamo for him. (Durham Mining Museum )〕〔PUBLIC COMPANIES, ''Sheffield Daily Telegraph'', Monday 15 June 1903〕 The lack of information on this business's activities could be attributed to its pre-war Admiralty and War Office contracts. On page 102 of a 1917 report of an inquiry into Works Committees the ''Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics'' reported that Phoenix Dynamo was a firm employing about 4,000 employees and was now in addition to its ordinary product producing "miscellaneous munitions supplies".〔Albert Benedict Wolfe, ''Works Committees and Joint Industrial Councils: A Report'' United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Industrial Relations Division, 1919〕 During the war Phoenix Dynamo contracted to the Admiralty to build Short seaplanes. It produced millions of shells, a large quantity of machine tools and the fastest and biggest sea planes and flying boats.〔Supplements to Commerce Reports: ''Review of Industrial and Trade Conditions in Foreign Countries'', United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Government Print Office, 1920〕 After the Armistice in November 1918 Phoenix Dynamo merged with four other businesses to form English Electric and Phoenix Dynamo became English Electric's centre for electric motor and generator design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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