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History

The company was founded around 1800 and became a limited company in 1908. The company was based on Parnall Road in the 1830s and soon expanded into a worldwide business building machinery for the

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industries, taking over the former foundry of Parnall & Sons. Work included the construction of the Phillips & Sons Dock Road Brewery in Newport in 1887, the rebuild of

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United Breweries in 1896, the

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Northgate Brewery stationary steam engine in 1900 (which still exists) and design of the

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BBB brewery in

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in 1913.

Post war

In 1945 they described themselves as brewers and general engineers, coppersmiths, vat and back makers,

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workers, brass and ironfounders, showing the diversity of their work. The height came in 1961 when they had booming orders and employed 400 staff round the clock to meet demand. It was not to last as a combination of a High Court noise case and a lack of raw materials curtailed firstly the production of brewing tanks, then led to the company collapsing in November 1963. The brewery tank business moved to

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and the site was sold in 1965. The foundry frontage, constructed of stone with brick window surrounds, is now known as ''The Mill'' or the Adlams Works on Parnall Road is now used as residential and Art, Media and Design company offices including the Rohan Music Studios and Intellect Publishers. The company later acquired Parnall & Sons.

Products and services

The company designed and fabricated brewery plant, with its first recorded design for a brewery dated 1885.

Brewery ships

In 1944 the company designed a brewing ship for the

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to serve soldiers with beer in the Pacific Theatre in

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capable of making 250 barrels of beer a week. Initially four were ordered, but this reduced to two and the former

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7,500 ton auxiliary

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, in the summer of 1945. Only ''Menestheus'' saw service, completed on 31 December 1945 and completing a six-month deployment to Pacific ports including

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to dispense English

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to sailors. Her brew house, known as " Davy Jones Brewery" was dismantled in 1946 and the ship was returned to her owners in 1948.Chesterfield CAMRA: Innspire No 62 August 2006
Retrieved on 2007-11-27.

References

:*Bartlett, John ''Images of England, Fishponds'' Tempus 2004

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:George Adlam and Sons Defunct companies based in Bristol Foundries in the United Kingdom Defunct engineering companies of England Manufacturing companies based in Bristol