George Saxon

Former works of George Saxon, at the junction of South St and Tram St, Openshaw, as seen in November 2008

George Saxon barring engine at Manchester Museum of Science & Industry

1909? Two-cylinder barring engine from a 1300 IHP engine at Hawthorn Mill, Chadderton, near Oldham. The gears would be engaged with the flywheel in order to ’bar’ the engine over slowly. On display at the Northern Mill Engine Society museum in Bolton

Barring engine. Exhibit at Bolton Steam Museum.

Exhibit at Bolton Steam Museum.

George Saxon of Openshaw Engineering Works, Manchester were makers of stationary steam engines

• 1864 Company established to build mill engines. Exhibit at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry

• 1886 Engine for Stamford Commercial Weaving Co, Carrs Mill, Ashton-under-Lyme

• 1903 Engine for The Tudor Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne

• c.1909 engine for Hawthorn Mill, Chadderton. Its small barring engine has survived, and is displayed at the Northern Mill Engine Society museum in Bolton. See photo.

• 1913 Steam engine at Pear New Mill, Bredbury. This was a very large double ‘Manhattan’ engine, having horizontal high pressure cylinders and vertical low pressure cylinders, driving a pulley grooved for 73 ropes. It was designed to produce 4000 HP, but in the event only half of the mill was completed, so only half of the engine was used. Photographed by George Watkins in 1952.

• Barring engine for mill engine. Exhibit at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry

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