At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes of this vital part of the manufacturing sector. Taking a chronological approach, the book explores how, during the late nineteenth century, the industry developed a reputation for excellence throughout the world, before the challenges of two world wars necessitated drastic changes and reorganisations. Despite meeting these challenges and emerging with confidence into the post-war market place, the British machine tool industry never regained its pre-eminent position, and increasingly lost ground to foreign competition. By using the example of Alfred Herbert Ltd to illuminate the broader economic and business history of the British machine tool industry, this study not only provides a valuable insight into British manufacturing, but contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding Britain's alleged decline as a manufacturing nation.
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Professor Roger Lloyd-Jones is Professor of Economic History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Dr M.J. Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Business History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
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The machine tool industry formed a small but vital part of Britain's manufacturing sector, and this study examines its development over the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
factored sales, lengthening delivery times, factored business, machine tool interests, auto lathes, machine tool firms, departmental board, factoring department, machine tool exhibition, foreign machine tools, machine tool output, machine tool supply, specialist machine tools, machine tool exports, machine tool trade, machine tool lines, general engineering firms, manufacturing programme, standardised machines, machine tool imports, sole managing director, machine tool industry, domestic makers, imported machine tools, capstan lathes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Machinist, Alfred Herbert, Sir Alfred, Machine Tool Review, Council Minute Book, Board of Trade, Ministry of Munitions, Charles Churchill, Ministry of Supply, First World War, Mitchell Report, James Archdale, West Germany, William Asquith, Coventry Archive, War Office, Cambridge University Press, National Plan, Advisory Council, George Richards, Slater Walker, Western Europe, Common Market, Finance Committee, House of Commons New!
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factored sales, lengthening delivery times, factored business, machine tool interests, auto lathes, machine tool firms, departmental board, factoring department, machine tool exhibition, foreign machine tools, machine tool output, machine tool supply, specialist machine tools, machine tool exports, machine tool trade, machine tool lines, general engineering firms, manufacturing programme, standardised machines, machine tool imports, sole managing director, machine tool industry, domestic makers, imported machine tools, capstan lathes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Machinist, Alfred Herbert, Sir Alfred, Machine Tool Review, Council Minute Book, Board of Trade, Ministry of Munitions, Charles Churchill, Ministry of Supply, First World War, Mitchell Report, James Archdale, West Germany, William Asquith, Coventry Archive, War Office, Cambridge University Press, National Plan, Advisory Council, George Richards, Slater Walker, Western Europe, Common Market, Finance Committee, House of Commons New!
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