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Bradley & Craven Ltd was a manufacturing company specializing in brickmaking machinery in Wakefield England. The company was founded in 1843 by two young engineers, William Craven and Richard Bradley to manufacture what was then revolutionary machinery for automating clay brick production. Their 1853 patented ‘Stiff-Plastic Brickmaking Machine’, in combination with the Hoffman continuous kiln was responsible for changes in the industry which eventually saw it shift from a hand craft to a mechanized production line.〔Bradley and Craven Ltd, 1948, ''Thro' the Years,'' Wakefield.〕 Their machines were manufactured at the Westgate Common Foundry in Wakefield and were sold throughout the United Kingdom as well as many oversees markets such as Australia, South Africa and Germany.〔''The First Hundred Years: the Early History of Bradley & Craven, Limited, Wakefield, England'' by Bradley & Craven Ltd (1963)〕 The company also made steam engines, colliery winding gear and exhibited in the 1862 London International Exhibition.〔Official Catalogue of the Industrial Department, Cambridge University Press, 31 Oct 2013〕 In 1972 Bradley & Craven, amalgamated with a rival Leeds company, Thomas C. Fawcett, forming Craven Fawcett Limited.〔(Craven Fawcett Limited, Company History corporate website )〕 However the name continued in use with a new private limited company of the same name incorporated on 1 October 1998 and dissolved on 30 July 2002.〔( Company Check, Company data rex 2013 )〕 ==External sources== (Falkirk Community Trust, Museum and Archive collection ) (Model of brickmaking machine, Market Hall, Accrington ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bradley & Craven Ltd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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