Cole, Marchent and Morley
From Graces Guide
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Engine driving tinplate rolling mill stands driven at Kidwelly Industrial Museum. Barring engine in foreground
Cole, Marchent and Morley of Propsect 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]
- 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. [4]
- 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. [5]
- 1928 Ceased trading
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th June 1894 p565
- ↑ The Engineer of 21st September 1894 p249
- ↑ The Engineer of 5th October 1900 p347
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th May 1920 p564
- 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
- '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