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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Bloomfield Engine Works

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of Sunderland

c.1873 Alfred Austin Rickaby established the Bloomfield Engine Works.

These works were responsible for a variety of products including colliery plant, marine and stationary engines, pumps, feed-water heaters, steam winches, steam-hammers, water-softening apparatus, etc. They also undertook boring out of cylinders in situ and re-boring crank-pin holes, and similar work. A special branch of the business was that of broker for all classes of machinery, supplied from a diversified stock.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Obituary of Alfred Rickaby