This year, Bradford proudly holds the title of UK City of Culture 2025, and at Bentham & Holroyd, we couldn’t be more delighted to celebrate alongside our home city. Founded here in 1830, Bentham & Holroyd has been part of Bradford’s industrial landscape for nearly two centuries. From our earliest days supporting the city’s engineering…
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We recently discovered in our archives a 1971 reissue of The Century’s Progress, a comprehensive illustrated account of Yorkshire’s industrial and commercial life in the nineteenth century. Originally published by The London Printing & Engraving Co. in 1893, this book combines wood engravings with the format of earlier trade directories. It not only provides an…
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The Other Half: Moses Holroyd – A Legacy Since 1922 While the Bentham name dates back to 1830, the other half of the company’s history—Holroyd—is often overlooked. Moses Holroyd Limited, a pioneering wool combing manufacturer in its own right and a rival to Benthams, was founded in 1922 at 433 Manchester Road, Bradford. The company…
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Over at the Calderdale Industrial Museum in Halifax, they have been rebuilding a Noble Comb machine and we at Bentham & Holroyd are proud to have been involved in assisting the team with the restoration of the historic Noble comb of which we used to supply components. This now rare machine, once a staple of…
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After some delving through old archives during an office shift around, we unearthed this relic. Showing the successful registration of Fortune & Bentham’s trademark back on 25th Jan 1890, application no. 88,650. Sadly not much more detail is known on this trade mark since, nor can anything be found in the National Archives as yet,…
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In aid of rotary welding we have over the years developed our own custom variable speed manipulating table. As of this year, we have now made these available with varying specs to be sold to the general public and other companies. These units have a full 90 degree tilt function and a foot operated variable…
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Throughout 2022 & 2023 Bentham’s have been proud to provide critical components and sponsorship to the Durham University Solar Car project resulting in the successful manufacture of a fully working solar powered car now called the DUSC2023, unveiled 8th July 2023. Capable of >80mph speeds and less overall drag than a standard wingmirror, the car…
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It’s been a tough year for us all with Covid19 forcing us to close all but our essential supply chain manufacturing from March through into May. As of 13th May though we are delighted to have been able to reopen our offices and have been bringing back the majority of our furloughed manufacturing staff week…
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2020 is here and as such Bentham & Holroyd are proud to be celebrating 190 years of UK manufacturing in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Through the years we’ve gone through many iterations and developed our products and services to suit an ever changing and diverse engineering climate in the city that was at one point the…
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Thanks to our latest purchase of a new Pinacho CNC lathe with travelling & fixed Steady, and fully driven tooling, Benthams can now offer more specialist turning to long length items up to 3mtrs long that would have traditionally had to machined manually taking up far too much costly time and also increasing leadtimes.
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