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1867 After Wilkins died, his son [[Thomas Wilkins|Thomas]] continued to run the business at Orchard Works for a short time before moving to London. | 1867 After Wilkins died, his son [[Thomas Wilkins|Thomas]] continued to run the business at Orchard Works for a short time before moving to London. | ||
1881 Colchester Water Works advertised for sale a 16 HP grasshopper engine and a Cornish boiler by Wilkins of Ipswich, along with a horizontal engine by Wailes and Robinson of London <ref>East Anglian Daily Times - Tuesday 19 April 1881 </ref> | |||
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[[Category: Town - Ipswich]] | [[Category: Town - Ipswich]] | ||
[[Category: Stationary Steam Engines]] | [[Category: Stationary Steam Engines]] | ||
[[Category: Iron | [[Category: Iron/Steel Foundry]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:15, 23 February 2021
St Helen's street, Ipswich.
1851 Grasshopper engine. [1]
1855 William Pickford Wilkins is listed as a millwright.
1862 At the 1862 London Exhibition he showed a compound engine.
1865 W. P. Wilkins's patent grinding mills, made at Orchard Works, was shown at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. [2]
1867 After Wilkins died, his son Thomas continued to run the business at Orchard Works for a short time before moving to London.
1881 Colchester Water Works advertised for sale a 16 HP grasshopper engine and a Cornish boiler by Wilkins of Ipswich, along with a horizontal engine by Wailes and Robinson of London [3]
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Sources of Information
- Steam Engine Builders of Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1950 by The Augustine Steward Press