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[[Image:Im100316-Spencer2.jpg|thumb| Seen in Barbados. ]] | [[Image:Im100316-Spencer2.jpg|thumb| Seen in Barbados. ]] | ||
[[Image:Im100316-Spencer3.jpg|thumb| Seen in Barbados. ]] | [[Image:Im100316-Spencer3.jpg|thumb| Seen in Barbados. ]] | ||
[[Image:Spencer_blower.jpeg|thumb| Blower at Millwall Dock. ]] | |||
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1914 Engineers and contractors. specialities: grain handling machinery, silos etc., coal and ash plants, ore conveyors etc. Employees 750. <ref>[[1914 Whitakers Red Book]]</ref> | 1914 Engineers and contractors. specialities: grain handling machinery, silos etc., coal and ash plants, ore conveyors etc. Employees 750. <ref>[[1914 Whitakers Red Book]]</ref> | ||
A double-acting single cylinder vertical blower, by Spencer & Co is retained on a plinth at the east end of Millwall Outer Dock in the Isle of Dogs. This unit, possibly originally belt driven, is retained as a reminder of the grain silos which once lined this dock. | |||
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of Beanacre Road, Melksham, Wilts.
1894 The company was registered on 23 August, to acquire a business of engineers. [1]
1914 Engineers and contractors. specialities: grain handling machinery, silos etc., coal and ash plants, ore conveyors etc. Employees 750. [2]
A double-acting single cylinder vertical blower, by Spencer & Co is retained on a plinth at the east end of Millwall Outer Dock in the Isle of Dogs. This unit, possibly originally belt driven, is retained as a reminder of the grain silos which once lined this dock.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book