Superheater Corporation
Palace Chambers, 9 Bridge Street, Westminster, London, SW.
1911 Established
1912 Announcement. 'The attention given by locomotive engineers to the super-heating of engines during recent years has led to very great improvements and simplification of early designs of superheating, and the Robinson tube superheater which has been placed on the market by the Locomotive Superheater Corporation, Ltd., of Palace Chambers, Bridge Street, Westminster, S.W.. is calculated to eliminate the maintenance troubles and the expense incidental to the ordinary methods of connection between the steam pipes and the header of the superheater. The steam pipes are expanded directly into the header, and the simplicity and accessibility of the whole apparatus is obvious. Although the Robinson patents have only been in use for a few months nearly 200 engines are already equipped or on order for fitting with this device.'[1]
1920 News item. 'One of the most interesting exhibits is that of the Superheater Corporation. Ltd., London, who have on view two full-sized marine superheaters of the wellknown Robinson type — one with expanded element joint connections, the other with bolted joints — at present being fitted to some the largest passenger and cargo boats, including the Cunard, P. and O., &c. and also to some of the smallest steam trawlers. Superheating marine boilers have now become an accomplished fact owing to the great economy effected in coal and water. There if also shown scale model of marine boiler fitted with "Robinson" superheater weldless mild steel return bends in the various stages of manufacture. Full-sized locomotive superheater exhibits of the Robinson typo are also on view, together with forged steel renewable element ends. Reports received concerning Robinson installations fully justify their claim to being the superheaters that never leak.'[2]
1922 Capital £95,653. Employees: 16. Directors: Alex Spencer, Sir Sam Fay, J. G. Robinson, Sir L. Byron Peters, Charles Adams, Thompson Jowett.