"Butterley is the name ..." : advert issued by The Butterley Company, Ripley, Derbyshire, in "Spotlight on Derby", c1955
A fine double page advert from the long established engineering concern of The Butterley Company based at Ripley in Derbyshire. The company, founded in 1790 by the industrial pioneers the Outrams, Jessops and Wright families, was one of the best known amongst a myriad of similar industrial concerns and had over time expanded its activities from iron production and castings into steel, fabrication, machine tools and ancilliary equipment production as seen here.
This advert shows two of those specialist ranges; machine tools and overhead cranes. Best recalled for their construction of the vast train shed at London St. Pancras parts of the company survived into this century, the company finally and sadly vanishing in 2009.
"Butterley is the name ..." : advert issued by The Butterley Company, Ripley, Derbyshire, in "Spotlight on Derby", c1955
A fine double page advert from the long established engineering concern of The Butterley Company based at Ripley in Derbyshire. The company, founded in 1790 by the industrial pioneers the Outrams, Jessops and Wright families, was one of the best known amongst a myriad of similar industrial concerns and had over time expanded its activities from iron production and castings into steel, fabrication, machine tools and ancilliary equipment production as seen here.
This advert shows two of those specialist ranges; machine tools and overhead cranes. Best recalled for their construction of the vast train shed at London St. Pancras parts of the company survived into this century, the company finally and sadly vanishing in 2009.