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Heap Riding Mills, Stockport

From Graces Guide

of Stockport

1877 Sale Notice: 'TO ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, BROKERS AND OTHERS
WILLIAM MACPHERSON is in receipt of instructions from James Greaves Esq to catalogue and SELL BY AUCTION on Wednesday and Thursday the 19th and 20th days of December 1877, at the Heap Riding Mills Stockport, the STEAM BOILERS, STEAM ENGINES and MILL GEARING consisting of three double-flue cylindrical boilers 32ft long by 7ft diameter with all safety-mountings and connections complete, insured at 65lb pressure by Musgrave of Bolton; one double-flue cylindrical ateam boiler 36ft long by 7ft diameter with safety mountings and connections complete, and insured at 65lb pressure, by Haworth of Rochdale; one pair of condensing beam steam engines, coupled, cylinders 34 in and 33 in, each 6ft stroke with fly-wheel governors complete made by Peel, Williams and Peel; one pair of high pressure horizontal steam engines, coupled cylinders 24 in diameter, 3ft stroke, with spur fly-wheel, made by Musgrave and Sons of Bolton; one horizontal high-pressure engine, cylinder 12in diameter, 18in stroke, with fly wheel and governors complete; also the mill gearing, shafting, hangers, pullies, wheels wall-boxes, pedestals, and brasses.
Catalogues being prepared, and may be had together with further particulars on application to the Auctioneer, 55 Market-street, Manchester.[1]

1891 Directory: Listed. More details


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Sources of Information

  1. Stockport Advertiser and Guardian, 7 December 1877