1910 portable engine at Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, Devon
Nameplate on 1910 portable engine at Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, Devon
of North Wiltshire Foundry, Devizes
Brown and May were engineers and ironfounders.
- 1854 The company was founded by Charles May of Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries and built traction engines, road locomotives and portable and stationary steam engines.
- 1876 Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham showed a steam blower for cleaning tubes without a brush. [1]
- Two locomotives were supplied to R. Brotherhood.
- 1894 Catalogue portable and semi-portable steam engines and much other machinery.[2]
- 1895 The company was registered on 30 November, to acquire the engineering business of a firm of the same name. [3]
- 1911 Smithfield Club Show. Exhibited steam tractor and an oil engine. [4]
- 1912 Built one showman's road locomotive.
- 1912 The works closed.
Sources of Information
- Traction Engine Album by Malcolm Ranieri. Pub 2005
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- ↑ The Engineer of 21st July 1876 p40
- ↑ The Engineer of 14th September 1894 p238
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Engineer of 8th December 1911 p594