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Cole, Booth and Co

From Graces Guide

of Vulcan Works, Bradford

Also see Cole, Booth and Porter

1893 'A new steam engine, built for William Woodhead, of Parkside Road, Manchester Road, by Messrs Cole, Booth & Co., of Vulcan Works, Dudley Hill, was started on Monday. It replaces two smaller engines which were almost destroyed by the disastrous fire last year. It is a horizontal compound condensing tandem engine, the high pressure cylinder being 22in. diameter, and the low pressure cylinder 36 (?)in diameter, with 6ft. stroke. The engine is set to run at fifty-one revolutions per minute at present, but when the new mill is completed it is proposed to be worked at seventy revolutions per minute, at which speed it will work to 550 indicated horse-power. [1]

1895 'THE AFFAIRS OF BRADFORD IRONFOUNDERS. LIABILITIES £7,800.
Cole, Booth and Co., Vulcan Iron Works, Dudley Hill, Bradford, iron founders, have executed a deed of arrangement for the benefit of their creditors, Mr Edgar Musgrave being the trustee. .....'[2]

by 1896 Vulcan Works was occupied by Newton, Bean and Mitchell.

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Sources of Information

  1. Bradford Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 4 October 1893
  2. Bradford Daily Telegraph - Friday 15 November 1895