Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Buxton and Thornley

From Graces Guide
Small Buxton and Thornley steam pump at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
Larger Buxton and Thornley steam pump at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
Buxton and Thornley engine driving 1889 Crompton dynamo at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
1899.
1901. Three-throw water pump. Exhibit at the National Brewery Centre.
1901. Three-throw water pump. Exhibit at the National Brewery Centre.

Buxton and Thornley of Burton-on-Trent

1894 Brewer's Exhibition. Showed cut-off for horizontal engine and 'Steel's Mashing Machine'

Horizontal boiler feed pump. Exhibit at Bradford Industrial Museum

Various engines operating at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station

A Buxton and Thornley horizontal engine is still in service at Hook Norton Brewery.

1901 Brewers' Exhibition.

1904 Description and illustrations of George Thornley's valve gear for winding engines [1]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Engineering, 26 Aug 1904
  • The Engineer of 26th October 1894 p357
  • Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10