Wood, Baldwin, Mitchell and Woodhouse
From Graces Guide
Wood, Baldwin, Mitchell & Woodhouse of Rastrick and Brighouse
- Engineers and millwrights founded as Wood, Baldwin & Company by Joseph Wood, John Baldwin, Samuel Mitchell, and Richard Woodhouse at Birds Royd, Rastrick, Yorkshire, in 1867.
- In 1873, they moved to Clifton Bridge Iron Works, Brighouse.
- In 1881, when Joseph Wood died and John Baldwin retired, it became Woodhouse and Mitchell
- Source of the above information: Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion[1]
- 1856 300 HP tandem compound engine for Robert Kay, Elland[2]
- 1870s? Wood, Baldwin 100 HP engine at Hardcastle and Co Dyers and Finishers, Wortley Road, Leeds. George Watkins photographed this engine in 1968[3] He notes that it was compounded by adding a high pressure cylinder with Corliss valves, probably c.1911.
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