Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd
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Description area
Dates of existence
c 1840-1960s
History
The firm of Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd of Arbroath, engineers, founders and boiler makers, was incorporated in the year 1893. It was founded around 1840 by Alexander Shanks (1801-1845) who was a pioneer in the development of the lawnmower. In the 1850s, the firm purchased Dens Iron Works, manufacturing a wide variety of products including cranes, hoists, pumps and lawnmowers. In the 1960s the firm was taken over by Giddings & Lewis Fraser Ltd, Engineers, Arbroath.