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'''Thomas Wainwright and Sons''' of Commercial Iron Works, Stalybridge | '''Thomas Wainwright and Sons''' of Commercial Iron Works, Stalybridge. | ||
1891 Engineers, Millwrights, Brass and Iron Founders and makers of Water Wheels and Steam Engines.<ref>[[Directory 1891 Worrall's Cotton Spinners]]</ref> | |||
Maker of stationary engines. <ref>Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10</ref> | Maker of stationary engines. <ref>Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:01, 20 April 2018
Thomas Wainwright and Sons of Commercial Iron Works, Stalybridge.
1891 Engineers, Millwrights, Brass and Iron Founders and makers of Water Wheels and Steam Engines.[1]
Maker of stationary engines. [2]
Late 1940s. Repaired water turbines at Belper East Mill.[3]
1958. 80 HP horizontal twin cylinder cross-compound engine, 12" and 21" x 2 ft stroke, with a rope-drive pulley. Photographed by George Watkins at the Stalybridge works of Robert Broadbent and Son in 1958.[4] This engine was originally Woolstenhulme & Rye works no. 272 of 1878, 16"+30" x 5' slide valve twin tandem compound, 900hp at Broadbent & Co, Oakfield Mill, Droylsden, Lancs. It was rebuilt by Wainwright during wakes fortnight 1953 with Corliss HP cylinders.[5]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Directory 1891 Worrall's Cotton Spinners
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ Fred Copeland in Model Engineer 1991
- ↑ ‘Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 4: Wales, Cheshire & Shropshire‘, by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ Watkins, George (1970) The Textile Mill Engine vol. 1, plates 70-72.