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* A former engineer of the company, | * A former engineer of the company, Arnold Throp, wrote an excellent account of the company and its engines, with a rare insight into the methods of manufacturing large steam engines <ref>'The Last Years of Mill Engine Building' by Arnold Throp. Available from the publishers, International Stationary Steam Engine Society (I.S.S.E.S.). ISBN 1-872986-07-2</ref> | ||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
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Revision as of 15:03, 2 December 2011
Engine driving tinplate rolling mill stands driven at Kidwelly Industrial Museum. Barring engine in foreground
Photograph of foundry on display at Bradford Industrial Museum
Part copy of photograph on display at Bradford Industrial Museum
Nameplate on display at Bradford Industrial Museum
Cole, Marchent and Morley of Prospect Foundry, Wakefield Road, Bradford
- 1848 Company founded
- 1889 Morley joined the company
- 1890 The business and premises were purchased by H. W. Morley.
- 1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. 4-inch and 6-inch pumps. [1]
- 1894 September. Prospect duplex Pump. [2]
- 1899 Incorporated as a limited liability company.
- 1900 Compound horizontal engine for the City and South London Railway. Article and illustrations. [3]
- C.1901 Three engines made for Auckland Electric Tramways Co Ltd, of the horizontal cross-compound Corliss type, each capable of 475 ihp normal and 700 ihp. maximum output, running at 100 r.p.m., with steam pressure at the stop valve of 150 lbs. per square inch [4]
- 1907 Barring engine. Exhibit at Bradford Industrial Museum
- 1914? Supplied an engine to St David's Tinplate Works
- 1914 Engine builders and general engineers. Specialities: high-class stationary engines ranging from 100 to 3,000 hp for electric traction and driving mills of all descriptions; condensing plants, heavy millwright work, crude oil engines, piston drop valves, surface condensing plants. Employees 500. [5]
- 1916 Vertical engine for Arkwright Mill, Preston [6]
- 1917 Supplied engine to Stewarts and Lloyds Tube Works at Newport
- 1919 Installed an engine at Pontardawe Alloy Co
- 1920 May. Issued catalogue on central exhaust and tandem compound steam engines. [7]
- 1922 Article in 'The Engineer' described and illustrated the works and some of its products. The large machine tools included: three Asquith radial arm drills with arm radii of 6, 7 and 8 ft; four Peran-Richards horizontal boring machines; a pit lathe for turning flywheels up to 30 ft diameter; a flywheel faceplate lathe accommodating wheels up to 18 ft diameter; a Buckton planer with capacity 10 x 10 x 20 ft; a Lang lathe for turning piston rods up to 26 ft long [8]
- 1928 Ceased trading
- A former engineer of the company, Arnold Throp, wrote an excellent account of the company and its engines, with a rare insight into the methods of manufacturing large steam engines [9]
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th June 1894 p565
- ↑ The Engineer of 21st September 1894 p249
- ↑ The Engineer of 5th October 1900 p347
- ↑ [1]] Article in ‘Progress’ (NZ) Vol 1 Issue 4, 4 February 1906
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ [2] Photo of engine in Preston Digital Archive - "A Lancashire Cotton Scrapbook"
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th May 1920 p564
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 24th February 1922
- ↑ 'The Last Years of Mill Engine Building' by Arnold Throp. Available from the publishers, International Stationary Steam Engine Society (I.S.S.E.S.). ISBN 1-872986-07-2
- Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10