John Wentworth and Sons
Known as Wentworth and Sons, they were engineers of Wandsworth, London.
1835 Built an Arthur Woolf compound A frame beam engine for Ram Brewery, Wandsworth, London. Ran until 1976. [1]
1837 'FOR SALE, a Low-pressure Condensing STEAM ENGINE of 16-horse power, now at work, and may be seen at Deptford Tide Mills, which will be taken down about the first or second week in June, to make way for an engine of larger power — it is in good working order, with new crank shaft and boiler — also a high-pressure, expansive, and condensing steam-engine, of 2 horse power, with cast iron boiler, and fire-place with governor steam-guage, and all the requisites thereunto belonging, complete, ready to fix, and may be seen at J. Wentworth’s, Engineer, &c., Wandsworth, Surrey, where the further particulars of the whole may obtained, letters post paid.'[2]
1875 Made a 60 HP compound beam engine for Royal Mills. [3]
1867 Built a second Arthur Woolf compound A frame beam engine for Ram Brewery, Wandsworth, London. Ran until circa 1980. [4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Beam-Engines-in-the-UK/5
- ↑ Morning Advertiser - Friday 26 May 1837
- ↑ 1875 image - The Engineer, volume 39, p178.
- ↑ http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Beam-Engines-in-the-UK/5