George Adlam
| Private | |
| Industry | Engineering |
| Founded | Bristol, UK (1800) |
| Founder | George Adlam |
| Defunct | 1965 |
| Headquarters | Bristol, UK |
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| Products | Iron, Brass, brewery plant |
George Adlam & Sons Ltd (formerly known as George Adlam) was an iron and brass foundry and engineering company in Fishponds, Bristol, England.
The company was founded around 1800 and became a limited company in 1908.
The company was based on Parnall Road in the 1830s and soon expanded into a worldwide business building machinery for the chocolate and brewing industries, taking over the former foundry of Parnall & Sons. Work included the construction of the Phillips & Sons Dock Road Brewery in Newport in 1887, the rebuild of Portsmouth United Breweries in 1896, the Wadworth Northgate Brewery stationary steam engine in 1900 (which still exists) and design of the Madras BBB brewery in India in 1913.
In 1945 they described themselves as brewers and general engineers, coppersmiths, vat and back makers, sheet metal workers, brass and ironfounders, showing the diversity of their work. The height came in 1961 when they had booming orders and employed 400 staff round the clock to meet demand. It was not to last as a combination of a High Court noise case and a lack of raw materials curtailed firstly the production of brewing tanks, then led to the company collapsing in November 1963. The brewery tank business moved to Cheltenham and the site was sold in 1965.
The foundry frontage, constructed of stone with brick window surrounds, is now known as The Mill or the Adlams Works on Parnall Road is now used as residential and Art, Media and Design company offices including the Rohan Music Studios and Intellect Publishers.
The company later acquired Parnall & Sons.
The company designed and fabricated brewery plant, with its first recorded design for a brewery dated 1885.
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