W. N. Nicholson and Sons
William Newzam Nicholson and Son (later Sons) of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
1825 Company formed
1870 Exhibitors at the 1870 Royal Agricultural Show (Oxford).[1]
1876 Exhibitor at the Smithfield Club Show with a vertical engine and boiler mounted on wheels [2]
1877 Awarded Silver Medal for their improved metal mill at the 1877 Royal Agricultural Show at Liverpool.[3].
1890 June. Royal Agricultural Society’s Disintegrator and Grist Mill Trials. [4]
1913 Produced a vertical hopper-cooled four-stroke i/c engine marketed as Bull Dog and available in petrol or paraffin forms and rated at 5 bhp.
1937 Agricultural and general engineers and boiler makers, malleable iron and steel founders. [5]
A small W. N. Nicholson 'true vertical' engine (crankshaft above cylinder) is in the collection of the Kerrisdale Mountain Railway in Australia. 4.5" bore, 6" stroke, 2 HP. Once installed at the Goulburn Brewery, NSW.[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1870/07/22
- ↑ The Engineer of 15th December 1876 p411
- ↑ The Engineer 1877/07/13
- ↑ The Engineer of 27th June 1890. p521
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ International Stationary Steam Engine Society Bulletin, Vol 39, No. 2, Winter 2019