Mackies name plate.

Hi all , has anyone come across an engine or any other item with this name plate. have been trying to research the company without much luck.
I have a small Hobbs engine 3/4 HP which is plated Mackies. Found a comment on the American engine forum , someone had a mackies badged engine, other than that nothing.
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there was a Mackies ltd Reading mentioned in the Grace's Guide in the Engineer magazine under the heading of Machinery, maybe the 1921 was a new premises and a company split or restart.

Maryalice

hi and yes , thats correct . A friend of a friend has researched the company for me, (eric).
This is a link to his page and finding.
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A friend of mine has just passed this information to me, IF is Internal Fire [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] click on this link

Martin
May not be helpful but see the Lint-puller thread on the IF forum. Mackies of Belfast were major makers of agricultural machinery.

cheers

Eric appears as Cranium on here, good afternoon Eric

Maryalice

Good afternoon Martin 'Mary Alice'.
I think there were a number of companies across the UK with the Mackies' name. However this particular one was most likely a Kingswood, Bristol firm, mainly producing for the boot and shoe trade .

Eric

maryalice wrote:A friend of mine has just passed this information to me .....

Thanks for the link - that video is fascinating.