| 词条 | Lamson Engineering Company Ltd |
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| name = Lamson Engineering Company Ltd | logo = | fate = Acquired | successor = Dialed Despatches | foundation = 1937 | defunct = 1976 | location = Willesden Junction and Stoke on Trent | industry = Pneumatic tubes | key_people = | products = Cash delivery systems | num_employees = | parent = | subsid = }} The Lamson Engineering Company Ltd was the best known British manufacturer of Cash Ball, Rapid Wire and Pneumatic tube delivery systems from 1937 to 1976. HistoryWilliam Stickney Lamson opened a shop in Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, in February 1879. He experimented in saving the assistants walking between the counter and the cash office with a system of hollow balls on tracks. The Cash Ball system was born. He filed a patent on 14 February 1881. In January, 1882, the Lamson Cash Carrier Company was incorporated. In 1884, John Magrath Kelly,[1] an Irish-American from Boston, became an agent for the Lamson Cash Ball system in London, and the British Company was founded. By 1888, the Lamson Store Service Company Ltd was established at 1 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, London, WC. With capital of £85,000 (£{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|85000|1888|{{Inflation-year|UK}}|r=0}}}} as of {{Inflation-year|UK}}){{Inflation-fn|UK}} the company had rights to the ball system for. Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East with UK Patent 18566. In 1889, the company was renamed the Lamson Paragon Supply Company through an amalgamation of the Paragon Check Book Co with the Lamson Store Service Company. Shortly afterwards, they started selling the Rapid Wire systems in Britain. In 1897, the Bostedo Package and Cash Carrier Company launched its products in Britain. It was bought out two years later when Lamson renamed it the Lamson Pneumatic Tube Company. Subsidiary companies were established in Australia in 1901 and New Zealand in 1905. In 1911, all manufacturing was consolidated at a single factory in Hythe Road, Willesden Junction. On 20 January 1937, the Lamson Engineering Company Ltd was incorporated as a merger of the Lamson Store Service Co Ltd and Lamson Pneumatic Tube Co Ltd. In 1973, the firm was promoting its "Rallypost" system with PVC track and battery-operated carriers that could carry up to 6 kg.[2] This was designed as an office document carrier. The company relocated to Stoke on Trent in 1974. Lamson Engineering Company Ltd survived until 1976 when it was taken over by Dialed Despatches to become D. D. Lamson. Further acquisitions and sales moved the pneumatic tube business through Crest Nicholson, Frederick Cooper, J. Bibby and Sons and now it is part of Quirepace[3] See also
References1. ^John LIFFEN (1999) The Development of Cash Handling Systems for Shopsand Department Stores, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 71:1, 79-101. 2. ^New Scientist 8 Mar 1973 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.quirepace.co.uk/|title=Quirepace Lamson - The UK's Leading Tube System Resource|publisher=quirepace.co.uk|accessdate=2014-01-20}} 7 : Pneumatics|Engineering companies of the United Kingdom|Companies based in the London Borough of Brent|Companies based in Staffordshire|British companies established in 1937|Manufacturing companies established in 1937|Companies disestablished in 1976 |
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