Goodbrand and Co
Goodbrand and Co of South Hall (Southall) Street, Salford and Britannia Foundry, Stalybridge (Manchester)
formerly Goodbrand and Holland and see Walter Goodbrand
Made a diverse range of equipment from delicate instruments used for testing textiles to steam pumps and other steam engines.
Wrap Reel. Exhibit at Queen Street Mill Museum
Tension measuring device. (of Stalybridge, Cheshire). Exhibit at Queen Street Mill Museum
1887 Description and illustrations of quadruple-acting steam pump designed to do light as well as heavy duty, arranged with a movable eccentric to vary the cut-off in the steam cylinders, ranging from one-eighth of the stroke for light duty to following the piston, to about eight-tenths of the stroke. This was one of several engines and pumps shown at the 1887 Royal Jubilee Exhibition Manchester.[1]
1903 Listed at 19 Victoria Street as 'Engineers and Machinists', 'Mill and Colliery Furnishers', 'Steam Engine Makers', [2]
1909 Listed at 19 Victoria Street as 'Millwrights' and 'Steam Engine Makers', [3]
Britannia Foundry, Stalybridge
The 1892/1894 O.S. map [4] shows the foundry bounded by Whitelands Road, Clarence Street, the Huddersfield Canal, and the Enterprise Nail Works. The foundry was approx 250 yards north west of the Globe Iron Works of John Summers and Sons.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1887/08/12
- ↑ Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1903. [Part 3: Trades & Official Directories, etc.]
- ↑ Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909. [Part 3: Trades & Official Directories, etc.]
- ↑ 'The Godfrey Edition Old' Ordnance Survey Maps, Lancashire Sheet 105.07, 'Stalybridge & Ashton 1892'