Groom & Tattersall was a company of ironfounders and engineers in Towcester, Northamptonshire.
Company registrations The company was founded in 1900 by Alfred Rishworth Tattersall (1863-July 1949) as Messrs. Groom and Tattersall, Ltd.,1950 Obituary: Alfred Rishworth Tattersall In: 1950 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries reproduced in Graces's Guide. although the oldest records go back to 1876.The National Archives: Groom & Tattersall Ltd, ironfounders and engineers, Towcester - Accounts, photographs, factory inspection reports. Reference: 2010/154. On 27 April 1918, Groom & Tattersall, Limited was registered at Station Works Tiffield Road in Towcester, Northamptonshire.Groom & Tattersall, Limited on DueDil.
Inventions, awards and products
Alfred Rishworth Tattersall invented an improved apparatus for distilling wood, peat and other substances,GB Patent 191205343A. and a centrifugal dresser.US Patent 1037839A. He received in 1917 the John Scott Award on behalf of City of Philadelphia for his Midget Marvel Flour Mill.John Scott Award, 1911-1920. This was a small and simple flour mill for farming communities, in which water mills had been abandoned.Award of the John Scott Legacy Medals and premiums and of the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit. Science, 23 Nov 1917, Vol. 46, Issue 1195, pp. 508-509. DOI: 10.1126/science.46.1195.508 The company built for instance the Petrolia petrol locomotive for the Blakesley Miniature Railway.
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