Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay
Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay of the Vulcan Foundry and Engine Works, Paisley[1].
1838 Company founded as Donald and Craig.
1872 Dissolution of Craig, Fullerton and Co; the copartnery was carried on by Alexander Fullerton, Matthew Hodgart, and John Barclay under the above name.
1892 Incorporated as a limited company.
Maker of stationary engines. [2]
1900 Triple effect Evaporator for a sugar plant illustrated. [3]
1907 Supplied an engine to T. Whitehead and Co
1910 A speciality was turbine castings for battleships and cruisers [4].
1914 Engineers. Specialities: air compressing engines, high-class slow speed winding and driving engines for mines, mills and power stations; pumping plants; hydraulic installations; cotton pressing plants; evaporators; iron castings up to 50 tons for marine engines and turbines. Employees 700. [5]
1920 Private company.
Large direct-driven electric winder for No. 4 shaft, City Deep Ltd, South Africa. Double cylindroconical drum 17 ft 6" to 35 ft diameter. Length of wind 4500 ft. Also a geared drive electric winder for Simmer and Jack Mines Ltd, South Africa. Length of wind 6300 ft[6]
1935 Article describing five winders for South African gold mines which had a larger single vertical lift
than any so far constructed. They were to wind from a depth of 6,660 ft. Three of the winders were for Simmer and Jack Gold Mines, Limited, and two for Sub-Nigel, Limited. The main contractors were Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co of Trafford Park, the
mechanical parts being supplied by Blanc and Co. of Johannesburg, and manufactured
by Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, Limited, of Vulcan Works, Paisley. Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, during the year
1934 themselves shipped the mechanical parts for
20 winders for gold-mine service ; 17 of these
for South Africa, 1 for Canada, 1 for the Mysore
goldfields, and 1 for the Trepca Mines in Yugoslavia. The ropes, which were made by
Hood Haggie and Company, Limited, of Johannesburg, were 2 in. in diameter, and were of the flattened strand
pattern. The main reduction gearing was made by Metropolitan Vickers.
The spiral groove in the drums was machined in a special rig driven from the mandrel by the bevel gear seen in the 1935 photo. The cone was mounted on temporary spiders. A long lathe bed was fixed in front of the cone, and carried a compound swivelling slide rest. The lead screw of the
bed was geared up to suit the pitch of the spiral,
and the forming of the grooves was carried out to
template by manipulation of the slide-rest handles.
[7]
1960 Steam and electric winders for mining.
1961 Engineers and manufacturers of winding engines, air and gas compressors, hydraulic pumps, cargo gears and evaporators. 250 employees. [8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 6 April 1910
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ The Engineer of 6th April 1900 p374
- ↑ The Times, 6 April 1910
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ [1] Some Outstanding Mine-hoisting Equipment'. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Technical Publication No. 1190, 1940
- ↑ Engineering 1935/03/22
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- Mining Year Book 1960. Published by Walter E. Skinner. Advert p341
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6