When were machine made pantiles first used ?

[mikric]

Basically as the title says anyone have a rough idea "when were machine made pantiles first used in the construction of a domestic dwelling roof"
I have had a hour or two on google and not found anything specifically dating their typical first use dates.
A link to any info would be great if anyone can find anything.
Cheers

 

[^woody^]

Is somebody doing some homework

Sandtoft tiles say their first factory opening in 1956, but IIRC it was demand for a clay alternative post war, and it was possibly Redland in the late 1940's who made the first machine concrete tile

 

[mikric]

Is somebody doing some homework

Yes sort of, got a property I surveyed built in 1890 with machine made "pantiles" on the roof and am not sure if they would be the originals, am thinking they are but not for definite . [/b]

 

[^woody^]

For some reason I was thinking of concrete.

Clay pantiles were machine made pre 1900 and I suspect sometime between 1850 and 1880 in various countries as part of the industrial revolution

 

[mikric]

Thats sort of what I was guessing, with the power of Google etc I thought it would be a simple thing to research,spent ages and it ended up bugging me more and more and couldn't find anything specific

 

[SurreyRoofingEstimator]

According to the book `Historical Notes On The Langley Museum' by C G Dobson probably the first machine made pan tiles (in the UK) were made in 1798 after a patent was taken out by Francis Farquarson with a patent for interlocking pantiles taken out in 1855 by three Frenchmen, Emile Muller, Joseph & Xavier Gilardoni.

Xavier Gilardoni is credited as having invented an interlocking tile in Alsace in 1840

We really do keep some crap in our bookshelves here lol

 

[Alastairreid]

Interesting subject .