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 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 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.

Dorset Iron Foundry

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Displayed at Poole Museum
Manhole cover spotted in Boscombe.

Dorset Ironfoundry Co Ltd of West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset

1878 Built at least one narrow-gauge locomotive.[1]

1882 Made two small locomotives for the Auckland Timber Co., New Zealand. These could also be used for driving machinery[2][3]

Replacement sluice gates and operating mechanisms for Throop Mill, Hurn, Dorset, made by the Dorset Iron Foundry Company in Poole and by Lott and Walne, probably in 1936 [4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
  2. [1]Online article
  3. [2] Online photograph of locomotive
  4. [3] British Listed Buildings web page concerning Throop Mill