Richard Moreland and Son
of 80 Goswell Road, London, EC.
of 3 Old Street, London. (1867) [1]
c.1813 Company established.
c.1870 Agents for Siddeley and Mackay
1882 Vertical single cylinder steam pumping engine for Turnford Pumping Station, Cheshunt.[2]
1884 Two vertical single cylinder steam pumping engines for Amwell Marsh Pumping Station, Great Amwell. [3]
1884 Description and drawings of pumping machinery for Eastbourne Waterworks [4][5][6]
1886 'A VISIT TO HAMPTON WATERWORKS, The members of the Society of engineers paid a visit to the Southwark and Vauxhall and Grand Junction Waterworks at Hampton on Tuesday. A special train conveyed the party from Waterloo to Hampton, where they were received by Mr. T. W. Restler, engineer of the Southwark and Vauxhall, and Mr. Alexander Fraser, engineer of the Grand Junction Waterworks, and conducted over the whole of the buildings, containing the pumping machinery, and thence the filtration beds and reservoirs. At the works of the Southwark and Vauxhall Company the chief point of interest was the new engines, now nearly completed, constructed by Messrs. Moreland and Son, of London, the design of the company's engineer. These engines are of the Inverted cylinder direct-acting rotative type, compound and surface condensing. The cylinders are 32 in. diameter, and 52 5/8 in. in diameter respectively, and 84in. stroke. They are intended to run at 15 revolutions per minute, giving a piston speed of 210 feet per minute, the cranks being at right angles. The steam pressure in the boilers is 100lbs. per square inch. The pumps are 19in. diameter, by 84in. stroke, double-acting, one pump being placed directly under each cylinder. It is calculated that they will pump millions of gallons 24 hours to height 280 feet. The valves are the four-beat type. ..... The engines inspected the Grand Junction works were three direct-acting Cornish engines by Harvey and Co., and two compound rotative engines, by James Watt and Co., of Soho, Birmingham, .....'[7]
See here for zoomable photos of the Hampton engine [8]
1887 Description and engravings of pumping engines for HM Dockyard, Malta.[9]
1888 Issued catalogue of pumping machinery for water works, deep wells, sewage works, dock, irrigation contractors etc. [10]
1891 Detailed description of direct-acting rotative pumping engine constructed for Eastbourne Waterworks, c.1884. Two cylinders, 20" and 38 1/4" diameter, 40" stroke.[11]
1894/5 Supplied two rotative pumping engines for Coventry Waterworks - Whitley Pumping Station.
Drawings are stamped "Richard Moreland & Son, Millwrights and Engineers, 3 Old Street, London E.C."
1897 Incorporated as a private limited company.
1914 Engineers. Speciality: constructional steelwork. [12]
Maker of stationary engines. [13]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1867/11/01
- ↑ Plate 97, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ Plate 98, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ Engineering 1884/10/03
- ↑ Engineering 1884/10/24
- ↑ Engineering 1884/11/21
- ↑ Surrey Comet - Saturday 14 August 1886
- ↑ [1] Thames Water online archive: search results for Moreland engine
- ↑ Engineering 1887/08/26
- ↑ The Engineer 1888/04/27 p338
- ↑ [2] The Steam Engine : a treatise on steam engines and boilers by Daniel Kinnear Clark. Vol 2, pp.275-294
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6