1903 Partnership founded by Frederick Carleton Anderson, Charles Atherton Atchley and George Robert Harland Bowden, electrical engineers in London, and at Manchester, Glasgow and South Wales, as G. Harland Bowden and Co.
1910 The partnership was dissolved by mutual consent; G. Harland Bowden would continue the business in London; Anderson and Atchley would continue the business in partnership in Manchester and Glasgow as Harland Engineering Co.
1919 With the end of World War I in 1918, Harland Engineering Company registered as a private company.
1937 Manufacturers of centrifugal pumps, electric motors, dynamos and switchgear. "Axiglide" Propeller Pumps. "Duoglide" Centrifugal Pumps. "Monoglide" Centrifugal Pumps. "Spiroglide" Centrifugal Pumps.
British Electric Plant Co.
The company was registered on 26th May 1900 for the manufacture of electrical engineering plant, based at Longcarse Works, Alloa.
The company was closely associated with the Harland Engineering Co. from 1919, as the two companies had a common directorate. For reasons of efficiency and economy, in 1925 it was decided to undertake the whole of the work done by both companies under one name only - Harland Engineering Company. The arrangement included no changes in policy, and the individual personnel with whom clients have been in the habit of conducting negotiations continued to attend to their affairs.
1938 British Electric Plant Co. was voluntarily liquidated, and all of the assets of the business were acquired by Harland Engineering Co. including the Longcarse Works.
1938 Harland Engineering Company made public.
1939-1946
During the war years the company continued to build pumps and other engineering solutions for mining, marine, power and other markets. They were also asked to build Loyd tracked personnel carriers for the war effort, which we have a short article about here.
1957 Harland Engineering and Harland Drives acquired a controlling interest in Simon Equipment after a successful collaboration between the companies on development of electronic controls for industrial drives.
1961 Manufacturers of electrical machinery, centrifugal pumps, water turbines, industrial drives and other products. Now supporting 1,300 employees.
1969 Acquired by G. and J. Weir, this company had been operating in the engineering sphere since 1869.
Weir Pumps Ltd
1970 G. and J. Weir was renamed Weir Pumps Ltd which also included Drysdale and Co, Harland Engineering Co and Weir Drysdale Service (London). The company was a member of the Weir Group.
2000 Alloa foundry closed, and staff paid off or relocated.
2007 In May of 2007 the Weir Group sold its Glasgow-based business Weir Pumps Ltd to Jim McColl's Clyde Blowers plc, with the pump company subsequently being renamed as Clyde Pumps.
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