John Meens
of Norwich
1827 Advert: 'ENGINE LATHE.
JOHN MEENS,
PRINTER AND BOOK-BINDERS JOINER,
BRASS FOUNDER, PATENT MANGLE AND IRON AXLETREE MAKER,
No. 12, FISHER'S LANE, NEAR ST. GILES' BROAD STREET, NORWICH,
Informs the Proprietors of Mills and Manufactories, that he turns AXLES, Shafts, Spindles, Valves, Pistons, Cones, Sphericals and Plane Surfaces, Pyramids, Triangles, and Squares, bores all kinds of Cylinders and Working Barrels, conical or cylindrical, turns Concave, Convex, or Flat Surfaces, to eight feet diameter, divides and cuts Pinions, Wheels, and Patterns, into any number of Teeth, and Cuts Screws all kinds, from one-eighth of an inch to 12 inches diameter, left or right, single, double, or triple, square or diagonal, cylindrical or conical, and to any required number of turns.— The accuracy with which the above Lathe performs its operations may be entirely relied on.
J. M. makes and sells Printing Presses, Book- Binder's do. Copper Plate do. Hot Presser's do. Paper Mill do. Wine and Cyder Presses and Mills, Tincture Presses and Rose Mills, Packing Presses, Tallow do. Tobacco do. Sawyer's Screws, Veneering do. Iron Cramps, Brass and Cast Iron Pumps of all sizes, Patent and Common Axletrees of all descriptions, Brass Hoops and Tips for Shafts, of all sorts. Axletrees of various kinds standing for Sale.'[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Norfolk Chronicle - Saturday 24 November 1827