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c1900 Three engines for [[Stockport Waterworks]] (Wilmslow Station).
c1900 Three engines for [[Stockport Waterworks]] (Wilmslow Station).
1903 Pumps for [[Louth Waterworks]]<ref>Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 23 April 1903</ref>


1905 Advert for pumps, air compressors, surface and jet condensers. <ref>Mechanical World Year Book 1905. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p36.</ref>
1905 Advert for pumps, air compressors, surface and jet condensers. <ref>Mechanical World Year Book 1905. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p36.</ref>

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Frank Pearn pump in operation at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
Machine on display at Oakham Treasures.
1871. R. and F. Pearn. Improved Donkey Pump.
1876. Pumping Engine.
1880.
1881
1885. Direct Acting Steam Pump.
1886. Steam Pump for High-Pressure Hydraulic Machinery.
1886. Duplex double acting pumping engine.
1894.
June 1898.
August 1899.
c1900. 3-cylinder water pump.
February 1901.
1901.
January 1902.
1902. Electric pumps for Kookynie Gold Mines, West Australia.
1903.

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1905.
1907.
1909. Treble ram sinking pump.
1912.
1913.
1918.
1919.
1922.
November 1923.
1926.
1936.
1943.
1951. Advert for pumps.
Donkey or Wall Pump.
Donkey or Wall Pump (detail).

Frank Pearn and Co of West Gorton, Manchester.

See Frank Pearn

1872 Exhibitor at the 1872 Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show. Donkey Pumps.[1]

1875 Exhibitor at the 1875 Smithfield Show. Donkey Pumps. [2]

1875-78 See Frank Pearn and Co: Patents

1876 Exhibitor at the 1876 Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham with seven pumps.[3]

1880 Partnership and name change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Frank Pearn, Sinclair Pearn, and Arthur Collings Wells, carrying on business as Engineers, under the style or firm of Frank Pearn, Wells, and Co., at West Gorton, near the city of Manchester, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as from the 31st day of January last. The business will henceforth be carried on by the said Frank Pearn, Sinclair Pearn, and Thomas Addyman, as Copartners, under the style or firm of Frank Pearn and Co....'[4]

1881 Advert for Manchester Donkey or Wall Pump; The Manchester Pumping Engine.

1883 Frank Pearn and Co were advertising in 'The Textile Manufacturer' as sole licensees and makers of the 'Portland' Patent Rotary Pump in England

1886 Makers of Clarke's railway signal wire compensator [5]

1898 Supplied pumps for St. Neots Waterworks[6]

c1900 Three engines for Stockport Waterworks (Wilmslow Station).

1903 Pumps for Louth Waterworks[7]

1905 Advert for pumps, air compressors, surface and jet condensers. [8]

1913 Advert for pumps. [9]

1914 Directory: Listed as 'Pumping Machinery for all purposes'.Kelly's Directory of Durham, 1914 p765.

1917 Advert for pumps. [10]

1919 Advert for pumps. [11]

1920 Two horizontal vacuum pumps.[12]

1927 Advert for pumps. [13]

1940 Advert. Pumps 'Pumps for all purposes'. [14]

1945 Advert for pumps. [15]

1955 Resolution to wind the company up.[16]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Times - Saturday 14 September 1872
  2. The Engineer 1875/12/10
  3. The Engineer 1876/07/21 p40
  4. The London Gazette Publication date:15 June 1880 Issue:24855 Page:3494
  5. The Engineer 1886/04/23
  6. Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 21 April 1898
  7. Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 23 April 1903
  8. Mechanical World Year Book 1905. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p36.
  9. Mechanical World Year Book 1913. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p54.
  10. Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p126.
  11. Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p166.
  12. The Engineer 1920/01/16 p74.
  13. Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p126.
  14. Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p188.
  15. Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p152.
  16. The London Gazette Publication date:1 April 1955 Issue:40444 Page:1966
  • The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6