Hewes and Wren
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Hewes & Wren of Manchester
Millwrights and textile machine makers. Important makers of large iron waterwheels.
Partnership of Thomas Hewes and Henry Wren [1]
1825 Listed as millwrights, of 12 Dale Street [2]
1824 Supplied a waterwheel, 16 Feet diameter and 10 Feet wide, for a corn mill at Knottingley. [3]
1828 Supplied and erected the machinery for a large flour mill at Skerne, Yorkshire [4]
Became Wren and Bennett
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, Volume 1' Edited by Prof Sir Alec Skempton, Published by Thomas Telford Publishing, 2002
- ↑ 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Vol II, 1825'
- ↑ Advertisement for mill to be let, Leeds Intelligencer, 1 April 1824
- ↑ Advertisement for mill to be let, in the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 4 May 1844