La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima
La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima (MTM) of Barcelona, Spain
Established in 1855 as a partnership between Valenti Esparó and Tous, Ascacíbar y Compañía (from the merger between V. Esparó’s factory and that of Fundición de Hierro, known as La Barcelonesa). Production was to include foundrywork, ships, boilers, stationary and marine steam engines, railway locomotives, hydraulic equipment, textile machinery, bridges and other structural engineering work, and other engineering products.
La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima, along with Nuevo Vulcano, Alexander Hermanos, and Portilla and White of Seville, were to be the leading heavy machinery manufacturers in the Iberian peninsula. La Maquinista would become the largest.
The above information is condensed from 'The Mechanical Engineering Industry in Catalonia' by Santiago Riera[1], where details of some of the firm's products will be found.
See also Wikipedia entry.
1896 Description and engravings of the four-cylinder triple-expansion engines of the Spanish armoured cruiser Emperador Carlos V, constructed by La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima of Barcelona, under the direction of Senor Don Ernesto Tous, and from designs prepared and supplied by Maudslay, Sons and Field. The Emperador Carlos V. was built at Cadiz, in the shipyard of Veamurgia Hermanos. [2]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] 'The Mechanical Engineering Industry in Catalonia' by Santiago Riera, Universitat de Barcelona: CATALAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 1: 101-112 (2008). Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona. DOI: 10.2436/20.1000.01.7. ISSN: 2013-407X
- ↑ Engineering 1896/01/03