Thornewill and Warham
Thornewill and Warham of Burton-on-Trent were brewery and general engineers.
Established 1732
1852 'BURTON ENGINE WORKS.- The long-established iron foundry for many years carried on by Messrs. Thornewill, but now under the firm of Thornewill and Warham, has now become a manufactory of the locomotive steam-engine. The first locomotive engine manufactured at Burton was turned out a few weeks ago, and now there are several more in course a of construction. These works are about to be enlarged, and plans are in the hands of the builders for this purpose.'[1]
1858 Death of Robert Thornewill [2]
1860 Supplied a beam pumping engine to Mill Close Lead Mines in Darley Dale
1861 Commenced locomotive building for Bass, Ratcliffe and Gretton
1887 Description, drawings and engraving of large pumping engines installed underground at Denby Colliery near Derby. 'These engines have superseded a very old plant consisting of a beam pumping supplied by the same firm in 1842, and a Basset atmospheric engine. The atmospheric engine is illustrated on page 281 ; it was erected in the position shown in 1817, but had been working previously at another pit. It ran until February 25, 1886, working twenty-four hours a day in winter, and nine or ten hours a day in summer. .... The beam engine which was erected in 1842, had a cylinder 54 in. in diameter by 8 ft. stroke. ... The steam pressure was 5lb. per square inch. The new engines perform the duty of the two just described, and in addition pump 350 to 400 gallons per minute from the adjoining colliery at Kilburn. ...The engines are erected in an underground house to which steam is supplied by a pipe which descends the winding shaft, while the water is sent up the pumping shaft ...'[3]
1897 Supplied two vertical pumping engines to The Bratch Pumping Station (see photo)
1891 Supplied a winding engine to Elliott Colliery (see photo)
1900 Supplied a winding engine to the Powell Duffryn Co
1907 Incorporated as a Limited Company.
1910 Thornewill & Warham winding engine at Cresswell Colliery, No. 1 shaft. Two 40" cylinders, 7 ft stroke, 20 ft dia parallel drum.[4]
1914 Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, Millwrights and Boilermakers. Specialities: Colliery and mining plant, waterworks and sewage plant, brewery and general engineering, winding and hauling plant, blowing engines, compound and condensing engines, pumping engines. Employees 300 to 500. [5]
1919 Company reconstructed
1922 Colliery Engineers, Iron & Brass Founders, Millwrights & Boilermakers. New Street, Burton-on-Trent. Capital £30,000, Issued £29,402. Employees: 300. Directors: David Mein Nesbit (Chairman ), Frederick Charles Pulsford (Advisory Director), Frederick William Jennings, James Menzies Playfair, Thomas E. Lowe,. G. F. J. Blacks. Sec. John W. Sleightholme. Manufactures.— Engines for winding, hauling ventilating and air compressing, pit-head gear, cages and props, ventilating fans, pumping engines Cornish pumps, gear, etc., boilers. Specialities.—Portable " compressed air " haulage engines, profile type overwind preventors, castings up to 14 tons.
1940 Thornewill and Warham. Engineers and Boilermakers. Burton-on-Trent.[6]
Acquired by S. Briggs and Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- ↑ Derby Mercury - Wednesday 21 April 1852
- ↑ Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 17 July 1858
- ↑ Engineering 1887/03/25
- ↑ Derbyshire Courier - Saturday 10 September 1910
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 08 April 1940