Four instruction booklets on transformers and circuit breakers. Ferguson Pailin Limited, Openshaw, Manchester, c1960 Ferguson Pailin Instruction Booklets circa 1960
Case containing three maximum time limit relays, serial No. 54485. Made by Ferguson Pailin Ltd. Case containing three maximum time limit relays
Brochures, reports, invitations, instruction manuals and other trade literature relating to Ferguson Pailin Ltd, AEI (Higher Openshaw), GEC (Higher Openshaw), GEC Alsthom (Higher Openshaw & Kidsgrove), ALSTOM (Higher Openshaw, Paris & Stafford) and Medelec Switchgear Ltd of Malta (licensee). Ferguson Pailin Ltd manufactured switchgear on the same site in Higher Openshaw from 1913 until the operation closed down in 2003, by which time Alstom owned the company. Founded by Samuel Ferguson and George Pailin, ex-employees of Ferranti, the business was essentially a take-over of the Ferranti switchgear operation. The collection also includes brochures from The Record Electrical Company Ltd, an unrelated company. Collection of trade literature from Ferguson Pailin Ltd and successor companies circa 1930-1956; circa 1954-1995; circa 1940
Various copies of publicity material from electrical, domestic appliance suppliers and engineering companies including; Metropolitan Vickers; Hall & Pickles Ltd; C C Dunkerley & Co Ltd; Baxendale & Co Ltd; Roberts, Black & Co Ltd; Ferguson Pailin Ltd; H W Kearns; Mather & Platt Ltd; Allen, Harrison & Co Ltd; Central Electricity Generating Board posters. Collection of Engineering Trade Literature and Drawings 1930-1980
Moving coil relay; open and reserve phase relay. Manufactured by Ferguson, Palin Ltd Moving coil relay 1945