1779 |
Gabriel Davis opens his Instrument
business in Boar Lane Leeds, later he employs his nephew John
Davis |
1830-1843 |
John Davis makes regular visits to
Derby opening temporary shops for each visit.
(Click here for newspaper adverts from 1831 to 1843)
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1844 |
John Davis relocates to Derby and opens
a permanent shop and workshop |
1840-1850 |
Evidence that John Davis and Son are manufacturers
of miners lamps |
1873
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John Davis dies, the company lists
Theodolites, Anemometers, miner’s lamps, pressure gauges,
medical devices, spectacles and opera glasses in its catalogue.
The business was taken over by Henry Davis, son of John. |
1875 |
The business moves to All Saints Works
Amen Alley, Derby England
(Click for 1877 catalogue)
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1886 |
The company supplies it’s
first lighting system to the Mill Close lead mine in Derbyshire
England
(Click here for an extract from Industries 1887) |
1889 |
Davis Derby supplies electricity to
local shops and offices |
1890 |
Davis Derby was an agent for Jeffery
coal cutting machines located in Columbus Ohio |
1890-1910 |
Davis Derby opens a business in the
US based in Baltimore and appoints agents in Johannesburg, Natal,
Rhodesia, Canada, Australia, China and Japan
(Click here for a record of Queen Victoria's visit in 1891)
(Click here for 1892 catalogue)
(Click here for An Hour At All Saints Works 1893)
(Click here for Manufactures at Home 1893)
(Click here for a view of Wymen's Encyclopeadia 1897)
(Click here for a view of Davis's 1902 US Catalogue)
(Click here for our Applications of Hygrometer 1908 document)
(Click here for our 1912 catalogue)
(Click here for our Davis Anemometer Catalogue 1912)
|
1914 |
Davis Derby opens a slide rule manufacturing
plant having previously sold imported products from Germany and
Japan.
(Click here for History Timeline of Davis Derby 1830-1917)
|
1920-1935 |
Many developments in miners lamps
(Click here for our 1920 Lamps)
(Click here for The Hedley Dial 1923)
(Click here for THE PRODUCTION OF MINING APPARATUS 1940)
|
1945-1955 |
Davis Derby discontinues miner’s
lamps and instruments and concentrates on electrical equipment
for mines. |
1962 |
Davis Derby sold to Standard Industrial
Group based in the UK |
1966 |
Davis Derby relocates to a new factory
on Alfreton Road Derby |
1972 |
Davis Derby launches the SIVAD
Mk 2 Coal face signalling System – over 5000 sold worldwide. |
1977 |
Davis Derby launched the Flameproof
Monitoring system – sales quickly reach £1,000,000
per year. |
1982 |
Davis Derby launches the Telemetry
Interface unit, which became an “Industry Standard” in
the UK coal industry.
Davis Derby supplies it’s first
micro-processor based SCADA system to Renishaw Park colliery
|
1980 |
Pearson acquires Fairey Engineering
and restructures the engineering companies under Fairey. |
1987 |
Fairey successfully achieve an MBO
from Pearson. Davis Derby sold to Senior Engineering Group |
1988-1985 |
Davis Derby launches the PMCU 1, PMCU
2 microprocessor based telemetry outstations and the Mine Radio
system. |
1989 |
Senior Engineering re-names the mining
companies as Senior Mining Equipment Ltd. (Comprising Davis Derby,
Hayden Nylos Conflow and RF Luke. |
1991 |
Davis Derby reaches agreement with
Texas Instruments to develop and sell TIRIS RFID systems into
hazardous areas. |
1992 |
Communication and Control Engineering
acquire Davis Derby Ltd |
1993 |
Davis Derby re-locates to Chequers
Lane Derby |
1995 |
Davis Derby launches the TruckLOG
FLT Driver access control system |
1999 |
Davis Derby launches the TruckLOG
EV 16 FLT Driver access control system |
2001 |
Davis Derby launches the TruckLOG
S 16 FLT Driver access control system |
2002 |
Davis Derby launches the PC 21 mining
system |
2003 |
Davis Derby launches the TruckLOG
FLT Speed control products |
2004 |
Davis Derby launches the TruckLOG
SD 1 FLT Access control system
Davis Derby launches the Multi
Tag RFID system for mines and
|
2005 |
Davis Derby wins largest project in history,
supplying minewide monitoring to Yuzkuzbassugol, Russia
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