Goodwin Coat of Arms

Colours: The colours incorporated in the arms are Black for its industrial connotations, Red and Gold - the colours of the steel melting furnaces and Gold for reference to wealth generated by industry.

Symbols: In the top third of the shield - the millrind # for the engineering connection. The wings around the millrind symbolise the overseas interests of the company.

The centre gold band displays are oak and ivy leaves. The oak leaves indicate the English roots of the Goodwin family, the ivy leaf because the foundry is located in the ancient Ivy House Estate. The Stafford Knot occupies the bottom third of the shield as the family and company were established in the county of Staffordshire.

# a millrind is the iron set into the centre of a millstone to hold it in place.
On the top of the shield is a furnace man who holds a millrind to show the original engineering and iron foundry roots.

Motto: The Mote (motto) 'On fonde pour le monde' - One founds for the world.

This photo was taken c.1920's

On the far-side of the photo is the Goodwin foundry which was started in 1883 on Ivy House Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The works were on the edge of the moorland alongside the Caldon canal.

he foreground, on the opposite side of the canal was the Eagle Pottery works of J & G Meakin built in 1859. In this photograph the large bottle kilns of the pottery works can clearly be seen.

R. Goodwin and Sons (Engineers) Ltd, as it was then, was an iron foundry and engineering company supplying castings and equipment to local industry.

Large iron casting c.1940's

This cast-iron casting is the tub of a ‘beater’ used for processing paper pulp as part of the paper manufacturing process. In the background, the large cylindrical item, is the beater rotor. Goodwin supplied this as an assembled item.

The  castings are for the nearby Brittan's Ivy House Paper Mill which supplied the local pottery industry with paper for transfer printing and for packing.

This advert appeared in a 1955 publication entitled "Prestige and Progress - A Survey of Industrial North Staffordshire"

"This old established firm has many years of experience from which to draw the knowledge and craft required in the manufacture of its products. Founded in 1883, it has continuously produced iron castings and engaged in heavy engineering, today being one of the largest iron foundries in the Midlands.

The foundry manufactures castings in high grade qualities, laboratory controlled, alloyed for specific duties and strengths, up to a unit weight of ten tones, for the machine tool, rolling mill and the chemical industries. During recent years the precision casting of moulds for the rubber tyre industry has been developed, resulting in the firm becoming a major supplier to that trade.

Recently, due to the firm's outstanding name for quality production, the Mond Nickel Company Limited entrusted it with a licence to manufacture the new Spheroidal Graphite Iron (bendable cast iron) having strengths greatly in excess of grey cast iron.

The building of machines and the machining of castings is taken care of by extensive machine shops, equipped with the most up-to-date machine tools, enabling the firm to produce straight from the drawing board to the finished machine."