Union Foundry (London)

1841 Sale Notice: 'To Iron-founders, Engineers, Machinists, and Others.
MR. HERNE will Sell by Auction, on TUESDAY, June 15, and following Day, at Eleven, on the Premises, the Union Foundry, Lower Shadwell, near the entrance the London Docks, by direction of Mr. John Dodgson, declining business, consisting of an excellent five-horse power condensing STEAM ENGINE, a powerful self-acting 19-feet Lathe, a capital 13-feet ditto, and screw cutting-machine, excellent 16-feet lathe, and boring-machine, capital foot-lathe with iron cylinder bed, and three others; .... powerful iron crane, double and single purchase ditto, two blast furnaces, 20 tons of flasks, 10 tons of rings and plates, 10 tons of pig and cast iron, five tons of wrought iron, crane ladles, forges, anvils, mandrills, Smith's and Turner’s tools, taps and dies, vice and benches, iron moulding-trough; copper, brass, and lead; two tons of weights, hydraulic pump, proving ditto, four fire-engines, strong Founder's truck, and five others, jack-in-the-box, set of triangles and breaking-balls, bell about two hundred weight, quantity of expensive iron and wood patterns, work-benches, iron safe, quartering and boards, brick work, &c. &c. May be viewed one day preceding the Sale, Catalogues and Particulars had on the premises, and of the Auctioneer, No. 33 Lombard-street, and No. 172, Shadwell.'

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