Holborow and Co
of Dudbridge Iron Works, Stroud.
Presumably the business of H. G. Holborow
Maker of stationary engines. [1]
1871 Fatal accident at Dudbridge Ironworks, Stroud.[2]
1885 Decription of automatic expansion gear applied to a horizontal engine, exhibited by Holborow and Co., of Dudbridge, at the International Inventions Exhibition. 'The engine is fitted with a main slide valve having a cut-off valve on its back, and on the slide box, which forms a guide to the main valve spindle, is pivoted a vibrating lever, the other end of which is actuated by a separate eccentric. In the slot of this vibrating lever works a slide block attached to the governor and also to the cut-off valve working at the back of the main valve in the usual manner. .... The arrangement of automatic expansion gear above described is found, we understand, to work very satisfactorily. In describing it, however, it is only right that we should point out that the system of deriving the motion of a cut-off valve from a link combining the motions of the main slide and an expansion eccentric is one introduced some years ago by Mr. F. W. Crohn, two arrangements of whose unison expansion gear, as it is called, were illustrated by us on page 516 of our twenty-first volume, and page 179 of our thirteenth volume.'[3]
1891 Description and illustrations of 30 HP tandem compound engine[4]
1893 Description of pumping engines for the Stroud Water Co. The vertical deep well pumps were driven by a pair of tandem compound engines.[5]
1894 Humpidge and Snoxell purchased the business of their neighbours Messrs. Holborow and Co., steam-engine manufacturers. The combined Company was named Humpidge, Holborow and Co.; James Dickerson Humpidge became chairman of directors.
1902 Advert: 'FOR SALE, CHEAP FOR QUICK REMOVAL, now fixed in Ireland, a Pair of COMPOUND HORIZONTAL ENGINES, H.P. Cylinder 15in., and LP. ditto, 24in. dia., by 30in. stroke; by Holborrow; fitted with high-speed governors, double expansion valve gear, all the latest improvements, sight feed lubricators; &c., &c. .... Price and particulars, apply RICHARD SIZER, LIMITED, Engineers, Hull.'[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Saturday 30 December 1871
- ↑ Engineering 1885/08/07
- ↑ [1] The Steam Engine : a treatise on steam engines and boilers by Daniel Kinnear Clark. Vol 2, pp.195-200
- ↑ Engineering 1893/05/12
- ↑ Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 23 December 1902