Eagle Tin-Plate Works

Eagle Tin-Plate Works at Neath

1891 'STARTING OF A NEW TIN-PLATE WORKS. On Thursday last, in the presence of the directors and friends, the Eagle Tin-plate Works at Neath were started. In the arrangement of these works no pains have been spared to make them thoroughly modern and up to date. Conspicuous in the building are the massive compound condensing engines, made by Messrs Richard Nevill and Co., Limited, Wern Iron Works, Llanelly. The large crank shaft and ponderous 40-ton fly wheel immediately arrest attention. The engines have cylinders of 26 and 46 inches diameters respectively, with a stroke of 4 feet. They are arranged to work at a steam pressure of 100lbs on the square inch, while the distribution of steam is automatically controlled by the governor. The ease with which the engines started testify to the excellence of the workmanship and the appropriateness of the design, while the enconiums of the management, "very satisfactory," seem in every way well merited. We hope the successful start is the forerunner of a long period of prosperity for the new works.'
South Wales Daily News, 26 October 1891

1894 'THE TINPLATE TRADE.
NEW ENGINE AND MILLS AT EAGLE WORKS, NEATH.
SUCCESSFUL START.
It is gratifying that while the tinplate trade is its present deplorable condition that some of those engaged in it already look forward to better times. This hopeful attitude was evidenced by the starting on Saturday afternoon of a 500 horse power engine and mills at the Eagle Tinplate Works, Neath. These works were built about three years ago (running three mills), and so well are they laid out, and so admirably are they managed that they have not only been kept at full swing all through the crisis of the McKinley Tariff. but the prospects have appeared so promising to the directors and shareholders generally that it was decided at the beginning of 1894 to increase the works and plant by an additional four mills. On Saturday the engine and mills were formally started ....The engine is a compound tandem of 530 indicated horse power, with cylinders 28 inches, and 50 inches respectively, and with a stroke of 4 feet. It runs at 40 revolutions per minute. The valves on both high and low pressure cylinders are of the Cornish equilibrium type ; those of the high pressure being automatically regulated by the trip gear introduced so successfully for tin mill engines by the makers. Messsrs. Taylor, Struve, Eaton and Price of Neath and Britonferry. Mr C. Edwin Price has made this class of engine and cut off gear his special study for a considerable time, and the firm named have at present several orders for new engines, and alterations to old ones on the lines of the engine now under notice. The start of the engine on Saturday was a complete success, the company of gentlemen who witnessed it expressing astonishment at the steadiness with which the speed is kept up. Nor were the spectators sparing with their warm congratulations to Messrs H. F Taylor and C. E. Price as representing the makers. Mr. T. Powell. J.P., Neath, who until within the last few years carried on a very extensive engineering works at Rouen, France, and whose name is as familiar on the Continent as that of any of the greatest engineers, was particularly struck with the engine and valve gear, ....'

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Sources of Information

• The Engineer 1894/11/02 p394