Crumlin Viaduct Works
Iron bridge builders of Crumlin
1853
1857 Start of diversification into other areas - railway signal and switching gear, steam-powered machine tools for riveting, striking, drilling and lifting and other civil engineering ironwork, such as lighthouses, piers and railway station roofing.
Employed about 200 people
the Works though this would not include manag-
ers, supervisors and erection gangs working abroad. 27 The bridges were usually designed at Crumlin though
1863 one of their largest bridges was Blackfriars which was not designed by the company but by Joseph Cubitt who also executed it
Proud of speed of delivery, reducing the time from years to months
Silver medal at the Paris Exhibition for a self acting steam striker