Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

W. P. Wilkins

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An underdrive Grasshopper engine.

St Helen's street, Ipswich.

1851 Grasshopper engine. [1]

1855 William Pickford Wilkins is listed as a millwright.

1862 At the 1862 London Exhibition he showed a compound engine.

1865 W. P. Wilkins's patent grinding mills, made at Orchard Works, was shown at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. [2]

1867 After Wilkins died, his son Thomas continued to run the business at Orchard Works for a short time before moving to London.

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Photograph of engine
  2. Birmingham Daily Gazette, 13 December 1865
  • Steam Engine Builders of Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1950 by The Augustine Steward Press