Wentworth and Son
Wentworth & Sons of Wandsworth
Same company as John Wentworth and Sons
Maker of stationary engines. [1]
1851 Mentioned. James Wentworth, John James Wentworth and James Fox Wentworth, of Wandsworth, engineers, Millwrights and copartners.[2]
1859 Woolf compound beam engine for Page & Overton’s Brewery, Croydon.[3]
1862 Mention of an 18 HP engine by Wentworth and Son.[4]
1871 Employing 58 men and 7 boys.[5]
In 1873 Tunbridge Wells Water Works advertised for sale an 18 HP beam engine, high and low pressure combined, 2ft. 6in. stroke[6]
1873 Bankrupt. Benjamin Hall, clerk to Wentworth and Sons, engineers, Wandsworth Dunts Hill, Garrett Lane, Wandsworth, London.[7]
1875 Beam engine for Royal Mills featured in 'The Engineer' [8]
1875 Explosion at Wentworth and Co, Wandsworth Plain, London.[9]
1879 Business for sale. Wentworth and Sons, Engineers, Millwrights and Founders. Works adjacent to the Thames, in Bell Lane, Wandsworth. Mentions John James Wentworth, deceased.[10]
See also Wentworth and Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ Perry's Bankrupt Gazette - Saturday 01 May 1852
- ↑ ‘Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 8: Greater London & South East‘, by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ The Ipswich Journal - Saturday 24 May 1862
- ↑ 1871 Census
- ↑ Kent & Sussex Courier, 5 September 1873
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 07 May 1873
- ↑ The Engineer 1875/03/12
- ↑ Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser - Saturday 08 May 1875
- ↑ London Evening Standard - Wednesday 13 August 1879