Wood, Baldwin, Mitchell and Woodhouse

Wood, Baldwin, Mitchell & Woodhouse of Rastrick and Brighouse, Engineers and millwrights

1867 Wood, Baldwin and Co was founded by Joseph Wood, John Baldwin, Samuel Mitchell, and Richard Woodhouse at Birds Royd, Rastrick, Yorkshire.

1873 The firm moved to Clifton Bridge Iron Works, Brighouse.

1881 Joseph Wood died

1883 John Baldwin retired; the firm became Woodhouse and Mitchell

1856 300 HP tandem compound engine for Robert Kay, Elland^[1]

1870s? Wood, Baldwin 100 HP engine at Hardcastle and Co, Dyers and Finishers, Wortley Road, Leeds. George Watkins photographed this engine in 1968^[2] He notes that it was compounded by adding a high pressure cylinder with Corliss valves, probably c.1911.

Sources of Information

↑ ‘Steam Engine Research Resources’ written and published by Stanley Challenger Graham on LULU.com, 2009: ISBN 978-1-4092-9009-4
↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000

Source of the above information: Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion [1] Calderdale Companion website

[1] ‘Steam Engine Research Resources’ written and published by Stanley Challenger Graham on LULU.com, 2009: ISBN 978-1-4092-9009-4

[2] 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000

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Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Wood, Baldwin, Mitchell and Woodhouse

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