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1874 Built a clockwork tram! This had coiled springs which were wound up by a steam engine at the depot. Did not enter commercial service.<ref>[http://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?http://www.tramwayinfo.com/tramways/Articles/Clockwork.htm] Tramway Information website </ref> | 1874 Built a clockwork tram! This had coiled springs which were wound up by a steam engine at the depot. Did not enter commercial service.<ref>[http://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?http://www.tramwayinfo.com/tramways/Articles/Clockwork.htm] Tramway Information website </ref> | ||
1881 Employing 200 men.<ref>1881 Census</ref> | |||
1882 A sale of surplus plant and machinery at the Tide Mills, Sittingbourne (evidently a paper mill), included a 40 HP compound beam engine by Middleton.<ref> East Kent Gazette - Saturday 14 October 1882 </ref> | 1882 A sale of surplus plant and machinery at the Tide Mills, Sittingbourne (evidently a paper mill), included a 40 HP compound beam engine by Middleton.<ref> East Kent Gazette - Saturday 14 October 1882 </ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 16:54, 6 February 2023
Thomas Middleton and Co, Millwrights, General Engineers, of Loman Street, Southwark, London, S.E.
Murray's patent brickmaking machinery of Loman Street, Southwark, London.
See Thomas Middleton and his son Thomas Arthur Middleton
c.1840 Beam engine for Baker Street Mill, Orsett. [1]
1850s T. Middleton of London built a printing press, using Applegath's concept of stereotype rather than conventional type, for the Morning Herald.[2]
1866 Engine for booster at the South Metropolitan Gas Works, Old Kent Road
1874 Built a clockwork tram! This had coiled springs which were wound up by a steam engine at the depot. Did not enter commercial service.[3]
1881 Employing 200 men.[4]
1882 A sale of surplus plant and machinery at the Tide Mills, Sittingbourne (evidently a paper mill), included a 40 HP compound beam engine by Middleton.[5]
1907 Exhibited Murray's brickmaking machine