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See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Mill,_Romiley Wikipedia entry] | See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Mill,_Romiley Wikipedia entry] | ||
Power was supplied by a 600 hp vertical compound engine by [[Daniel Adamson and Co]], installed secondhand. 3 ft stroke, 106 rpm. Flywheel was 16 ft dia. | Power was supplied by a 600 hp vertical compound engine by [[Daniel Adamson and Co]], installed secondhand. 3 ft stroke, 106 rpm. Flywheel was 16 ft dia. Photographed by [[George Watkins]] in 1937. Photo and information [http://ellisdesign.jalbum.net/Arthur%20Roberts%27%20Box/#Adamson-Elder-1.jpg here] and [http://ellisdesign.jalbum.net/Arthur%20Roberts%27%20Box/#Adamson-Elder-1r.jpg here] | ||
<ref>[http://ellisdesign.jalbum.net/Arthur%20Roberts%27%20Box/#Adamson-Elder-1.jpg] Website of Peter Ellis: steam engine photographs from the collection of Arthur Roberts</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 08:01, 21 April 2022
Elder Mill was a cotton spinning mill in Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester.
It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964.
See Wikipedia entry
Power was supplied by a 600 hp vertical compound engine by Daniel Adamson and Co, installed secondhand. 3 ft stroke, 106 rpm. Flywheel was 16 ft dia. Photographed by George Watkins in 1937. Photo and information here and here [1]
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