Bullivant and Co
Bullivant and Co of 72 Mark Lane and Millwall, wire rope makers and engineers.
1863 Company formed when William Munton Bullivant and John Henry Allen took over the business of James Stephenson
1874 Bullivant took over the Wire Tramway Co and renamed it Bullivants Aerial Ropeways
1887 Description of new works at Millwall [1]
1889 Description of their works at Millwall. [2]
1891 Donated a 1:12 scale model of an 1830 'segmental lathe' to the Science Museum. The machine was used for turning cylindrical surfaces on workpieces for which complete revolutions were unnecessary or impossible.[3]
1897 Engraving and description of a funnel shroud compensator patented by List and Munn and manufactured by Bullivant and Co. With the forcing of boilers in the modern steamship, the range of expansion of the funnel is very great, and it is not infrequently the case that ordinary shrouds are either kept at a very high tension or are loose, the latter being often the condition, since the shrouds are fitted when the boilers are not lighted, and then stretch when steam is raised. The result is a working of the funnel, especially in storms, which is not by any means desirable. The inventors introduced the arrangement which, as will be seen from engraving, consists of three heaves with a strong spring, by means of which the increased height of the funnel is at once compensated for, so that the shrouds are always taut.....'[4]
1899 Description and photographs of aerial ropeway constructed for the carriage of coke breeze at the London Portland Cement Co works in Northfleet, from the designs of W. T. H. Carrington[5]
1900 Catalogue of steel ropes, appliances and rope-ways. [6]
1914 Wire rope manufacturers. Specialities: flexible steel wire hawsers and ropes, mining and hauling ropes, blocks, pulleys and all appliances for working wire ropes. [7]
1924 One of eight companies merged into British Ropes Ltd on its formation[8].
1927 Advert for steel wire ropes. (of Dagenham Dock) [9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1887/03/04
- ↑ The Engineer 1889/03/22 p243
- ↑ Science Museum: Catalogue of Exhibits: The Machine Tool Collection, by K R Gilbert, HMSO 1966
- ↑ [[Engineering 1897/11/12], p.601
- ↑ Engineering 1899/02/24
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/10/26 p427
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p106