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Carels Freres

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1873.
1873.
1867. Double cylinder expansion engines.
1900.
1920. Locomotive Erecting Shop.
1922. Front View of the Main Building.
2024. The facade of the former main building, still bearing the name ACEC
1922. Bessemer Converter in the Steel Foundry.
1922. Uniflow Engine Cylinders.
1922. View in the Men's Canteen.
1922. Main Turning Shop Immediately after the Armistice.
1922. Main Turning Shop One Year after the Armistice.
1922. Large Foundry at the time of the Armistice.
1922. Large Foundry at the present time.
1922. Drilling, Planing and Slotting Machines.
1922. Small Motor Winding Department.
1922. Small Motor Assembly Department.

Société Anonyme des Ateliers Carels Frères (Carels Brothers) of Ghent (Gent, Gand), Belgium.

Established in 1838[1]

Supplied a number of large steam engines to UK textile mills, seven engines being installed in Lancashire spinning mills.

1889 Description and drawings of horizontal engine on Sulzer's system, shown at the Paris Exhibition [2]

1894 Brief description and drawings of single-acting 'Willans'-type engine [3]

1922 The Engineer 1922/05/05 journal has an in-depth description of the works.

1930 Description of tug Irande and its Carels-Ingersoll-Rand diesel engine. The tug was one of two made for the Thames Steam Tug and Lighterage Co by John I. Thornycroft and Co at their Woolston Works, Southampton. The other tug was named Wortha, and fitted with a Worthington engine.[4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 'The Sulzer Engine Comes to Britain' by J L Wood, Newcomen Soc.
  2. ↑ Engineering 1889/07/26
  3. ↑ Engineering 1894/11/09
  4. ↑ Engineering 1930/01/24
  • Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins, Vol 3.1, Landmark Publishing.
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