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The company, a family-owned business, in 1946 as a single garage shop on Sticker Lane in Bradford. Originally called Tordoff Motors, the company was established by Edward Tordoff, before being taken on by his son, Jack. Jack Tordoff was a successful rally driver in the 1960s and 1970s and winner of the Circuit of Ireland Rally in 1973.
Bradford had a very active local press at that time. Rhodes "Bradford Past and Present" provides a history and list of publications to 1890. [44] The article is anonymous but the author was probably William Cudworth. The Bradford Observer in particular is a very rich source of comments and reports. [45]
Lister Mills (otherwise known as Manningham Mills) was the largest silk factory in the world. [1] It is located in the Manningham district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England and was built by Samuel Cunliffe Lister to replace the original Manningham Mills which had been destroyed by fire in 1871. [2]
Phoenix P.5 Cork, a twin-engined biplane flying boat, designed in-house by William Oke Manning and built by Phoenix late in the First World War. Manning resumed its development in 1922 as the English Electric P.5 Kingston Aircraft manufactured under licence: Short Type 184 Felixstowe F.3 Felixstowe F.5 Fairey N.4
Vulcan Works, Thornton Road, Bradford, ca 1888, founded by Robinson Thwaites, was one of several Victorian era iron mills sharing the name; like many others, it made a wide variety of machinery including mining equipment and locomotives
Javelins were designed for production levels never before attempted by Jowett. Javelin and Bradford body production was out-sourced to Briggs Motor Bodies, who built a new plant at Doncaster. Briggs supplied the bodies fully trimmed and ready to be applied to the mechanicals. [5] The Jupiters were always built in-house at Idle.
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Bradford White Corporation, headquartered in Ambler, Pennsylvania, is an American-owned and employee owned, full-line manufacturer of residential and commercial and industrial products for water heating, space heating, combination heating and storage applications.