Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

J. Leveque et Cie

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J. Levêque of Herstal, Liege, Belgium

Ateliers de Construction, Fonderie & Chaudronnerie.

1893 Illustrations and brief description of Patent No. 12,456, June 24, 1893, to J. Leveque, Herstal, Belgium. It was a six-cylinder steam engine with pistons disposed concentrically round the axle [a swash-plate type engine], 'and consists in an application of the compound principle to effect an economy of fuel and to obtain the regularity of action ...'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Engineering 1894/07/20