Hathorn, Davey and Co
From Graces Guide
Hathorn, Davey and Co of Sun Foundry, Dewsbury Road, Leeds were makers of stationary steam engines
- 1876 Members of the Iron and Steel Institute visited their engineering works. Hathorn, Davis, Campbell and Davey [1]
- 1876 Details of their pumping machinery for the Erin Colliery at Westphalia. [2]
- 1881 Direct-Acting "Differential" pumping engine for Nottingham Waterworks (Papplewick Station) for temporary extraction until the new engine house was operational (1884), subsequently moved to Boughton.
- 1882 Davey differential engine for Bank Hall Colliery
- 1888 Differential Compensating Pumping Engine at Weston-super-Mare. [3]
- 1888 Direct-Acting Pump for Wolverhampton Waterworks (Cosford Station)
- 1889 Direct-acting accumulator pumping engine. [4]
- 1889 A number of small safety engines shown at the RASE at Windsor. [5]
- 1890 Hydraulic and pneumatic sewage pumps. Details and Illustration in 'The Engineer'. [6]
- 1891 Engine for Cosford Pumping Station, Wolverhampton Waterworks, Donington
- 1891 Davey differential engine for Clifton Colliery at Burnley
- 1894 One thousand hp Davey Pumping Engine for draining mines. Illustration and article in 'The Engineer'. [7]
- 1895 Advert on this page. [8]
- 1896 Vertical Rotative Engine for Liverpool Waterworks (Aubery St Station)
- 1900 Issued catalogue of pumping engines for mines with sections for steam, hydraulic and electric driven types. [9]
- 1900 Details of a triple-expansion pumping engine. [10]
- 1900 Details of hydraulic power plant for the Miike Mines in Japan. [11]
- 1901 Private company.
- 1914 Engineers. Specialities: steam, electric, hydraulic and belt-driven pumping machinery for water works, mines, sewage. [12]
- 1927 Pumping engine for Mill Meece Pumping Station, which has been preserved and can be seen running on steam.
- 1927 Advert for pumping machinery of all types. [13]
- 1934 Hathorn Davey went into liquidation in October 1934.
- 1961 Mechanical and hydraulic engineers. Manufacturing pumping installations for water supply, sewage drainage and similar purposes; boiler feed and and circulating pumps for power stations. 400 employees. [14]
Sources of Information
- 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
- ↑ The Engineer of 6th October 1876 p238
- ↑ The Engineer of 15th August 1876 p180
- ↑ The Engineer of 13th January 1888 p27+
- ↑ The Engineer of 12th April 1889 p310 & p316
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th June 1889 p546
- ↑ The Engineer of 7th February 1890 p107
- ↑ The Engineer of 21st December 1894 p550 & p554
- ↑ Post Office London Directory, 1895
- ↑ The Engineer of 26th January 1900. p107
- ↑ The Engineer of 9th February 1900. p150
- ↑ The Engineer of 8th June 1900 p613
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p61
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE