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Richard Moreland and Son

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of 80 Goswell Road, London, EC

  • c1813 Company established.
  • 1888 Issued catalogue of pumping machinery for water works, deep wells, sewage works, dock, irrigation contractors etc. [3]
  • 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."
  • c1895 Engine for Eastbourne Waterworks.
  • 1897 Incorporated as a private limited company.
  • 1914 Engineers. Speciality: constructional steelwork. [4]
  • Maker of stationary engines. [5]

Sources of Information

  1. Plate 97, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
  2. Plate 98, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 6: The South Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
  3. The Engineer of 27th April 1888 p338
  4. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  5. 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