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Jones & Shipman of New Century Works, East-Park Road, Leicester are makers of machine tools.
1898Frederick Pollard andFrank Shipman set up business in Leicester
1905Alfred Arthur Jones joined the business. SeeA. A. Jones, Pollard and Shipman
1911 Pollard left to startF. Pollard and Co a rival company.
The company becameA. A. Jones and Shipman
1917 Advert. Drilling machines and sleeves and sockets.[1]
1919 Advert. Drilling machines and other tools.[2]
1920 Jan. Issued catalogue on a range of machine tools.[3]
1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a large drilling machine for work on burrer forgings for the railways.[4]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1946 Moved to new site at Narborough Road, South
1972 Received support for a project from government programme for the machine tool industry[5]
1998 Acquired byRenold.
2014 Producing sophisticated grinding machines. Now a subsidiary ofHardinge.
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