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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]].
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.<ref>Birmingham Journal - Saturday 20 February 1858</ref>




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Revision as of 23:31, 29 November 2015

Presumably successor to Swayne and Co of Millwall, maker of railway wheels

1840s Bernard William Farey was assistant at the engineering establishment of Swayne and Bovill, where he worked under Frederick Joseph Bramwell.

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.[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Journal - Saturday 20 February 1858