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.

Fraser and Chalmers

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1889.
June 1898.
August 1899.
1899.
1899.
1901.
September 1902.
1906. Winding Engine at Sherwood Colliery.

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of 3 London Wall Buildings, London (1908).

of Erith, Kent.

1890 The company was registered on 7 January, to acquire the entire capital, shares and bonds, of an American company, to whom the business of manufacturers of mining and other machinery of the firm of Fraser and Chalmers had been transferred, and also to extend the business by the erection of works in England. [1]

Maker of stationary engines. [2]

1901 The American business was disposed of.

1906 Supplied winding engine for Penallta Colliery.

1911 Made ten turbines for Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. [3]

1914 Engineers. Specialities: mining machinery and power plants, boilers, engines and compressors, pumps, turbines; concentration, conveying, dredging, metallurgical, mining and miscellaneous plant. [4]

After WW1, acquired by GEC.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  • The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
  3. The Engineer of 4th August 1911 p126
  4. 1914 Whitakers Red Book