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Presumably successor to [[Swayne and Co]] of Millwall, maker of railway wheels | Presumably successor to [[Swayne and Co]] of Millwall, maker of railway wheels | ||
c.1842 [[George Hinton Bovill]] joined [{Swayne and Co]] | |||
1840s [[Bernard William Farey]] was assistant at the engineering establishment of [[Swayne and Bovill]], where he worked under [[Frederick Joseph Bramwell]]. | 1840s [[Bernard William Farey]] was assistant at the engineering establishment of [[Swayne and Bovill]], where he worked under [[Frederick Joseph Bramwell]]. | ||
Revision as of 08:49, 20 April 2020
Presumably successor to Swayne and Co of Millwall, maker of railway wheels
c.1842 George Hinton Bovill joined [{Swayne and Co]]
1840s Bernard William Farey was assistant at the engineering establishment of Swayne and Bovill, where he worked under Frederick Joseph Bramwell.
1857 'The suspension has been announced of Messrs Swayne & Bovill, merchants and patentees of various kinds of machinery. The amount of their liabilities is not ascertained, but it is believed to be large, probably over £100,000. The nature of their assets is doubtful. Messrs Cheape & Leslie, an old established East India firm, have also stopped. The disaster in this case is understood to have been through some connection with the transactions of Messrs Swayne & Bovill, although the ordinary business of the two houses was entirely distinct.'[1]
1858 Fuller and Horsey placed advertisements announcing the sale of plant and equipment at the Works, in Millwall, of Swayne & Bovill. This included machines by many of the best makers - Smith, Beacock and Tannett, Collier, Parr, Curtis and Madeley, Davis of Leeds, Fox, Whitworth; foundry equipment, punching and shearing machines. Also a set of new, unused flour milling machinery; steam engines and boilers, including a compound beam engine made by Swayne & Bovill, of 70 HP, with cylinders of 16" and 32"; materials including 100 tons of iron as rod, bar, and scrap, 20 pairs of patent wrought iron wheels, 20 new capstans to Allyn's patent, a new screw propeller, patterns for mill gearing, steam engines, drums, girders, etc.; 6 hudraulic presses for hay, made by the firm to Stirling's patent.[2]