George Saxon: List of Engines

Note: This is a sub-section of George Saxon

The following list is largely complied from Stanley Graham’s ‘Steam Engine Research Resources’ (more information below). Mr Graham urges due caution regarding the accuracy of the data, pointing out that the information was transcribed from others' personal notebooks. Nevertheless, it is considered worthwhile repeating the information here, representing the remarkable output of large textile mill engines from a relatively small company which ceased manufacturing in the 1940s. None of the main engines survive, but some barring engines have been preserved (see George Saxon).

• Date? Soudan Mill, Middleton: 1200 HP four cylinder triple expansion
• Date? Curzon Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne: 1200 HP triple expansion four cylinder
• Date? Grange Vale Spinning Co., Oldham: 500 HP cross compound

• 1878 Hawthorn Mill, Oldham, Chadderton (Oldham): 1250 HP triple expansion four cylinder

• 1892 Rock Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne: 1250 HP four cylinder triple expansion

• 1898 King Spinning Co., King Mill, Royton: 1750 HP, triple expansion vertical engine
• 1898 Vine Mill, Royton: 2400 HP twin tandem compound

• 1901 Bee Spinning Co., (Royton) Ltd, Royton: 1400 HP four cylinder triple expansion
• 1901 Sefton Mill, Heywood: 600 HP vertical cross compound
• 1901 Cape Spinning Co., Shaw: 700 HP four cylinder triple expansion
• 1901 Lark Spinning Co., Hollinwood: 2500 HP twin tandem compound
• 1901 Portwood Spinning Co., Stockport: 500 HP cross compound

• 1902 Gladstone Spinning Co., Oldham: 1200 HP vertical cross compound
• 1902 LCC Dawn Mill, Shaw: 1800 HP twin tandem compound
• 1902 Gem Spinning Co., Hollinwood: 1700 HP twin tandem compound
• 1902 Heron Mill, Hollinwood: 1400 HP vertical cross compound
• 1902 Park Place Spinning Co., Blackburn: 2200 HP vertical cross compound

• 1903 Magnet Mill, Oldham: 2200 HP twin tandem compound
• 1903 Monarch Mill, Oldham: 2500 twin tandem compound
• 1903 and 1906 Swan Lane 1 & 2: two 1500 HP cross compound engines

• 1904 Cairo Mill, Oldham: 1000 HP vertical triple expansion
• 1904 Glen Mill, Oldham: 1700 HP twin tandem compound
• 1904 Maple Mill, Oldham: 1000 HP vertical triple expansion
• 1904 Moorbrook Spinning Co., Moorbrook Mill, Preston: 400 HP vertical triple expansion
• 1904 Victor Mill, Stalybridge: 1500 HP Vertical triple expansion
• 1904 Lancashire Asbestos Co., Hurst Mills, Ashton-under-Lyne: 2300 HP vertical triple expansion

• 1905 Baytree Mills, Middleton Junction: 1400 HP, vertical triple expansion
• 1905 Rex Mill (1919) Ltd, Oldham Road, Middleton: 1150 HP vertical cross compound
• 1905 Shaw Spinning Co., Shaw: 1200 HP vertical triple expansion
• 1905 Bell Mill, Oldham: 1500 HP triple expansion four cylinder
• 1905 Cedar Mill, Ashton under Lyne: 1500 HP triple expansion vertical
• 1905 Dove Spinning, Egyptian Mills, Farnworth: 1400 HP cross compound
• 1905 Ocean Spinning Co, Ocean Mill, Great Lever: 1400 HP cross compound
• 1905 Sun(?) Mill, Middleton: 1150 HP vertical cross compound

• 1906 Eccles Spinning Co., Patricroft: 1500 HP vertical triple expansion
• 1906 Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Monton Mill: 1400 HP vertical cross compound
• 1906 Tudor Mill, Ashton under Lyne: 1800 HP triple expansion vertical
• 1906 and 1907 Broadstone Spinning Mill, Reddish: Two vertical triple expansion

• 1907 Briar Mill, Shaw: 1900 HP four cylinder triple expansion
• 1907 Carrington Mills Co., Kirkhall Lane Mills, Leigh: 450 HP tandem compound
• 1907 Trent Mill, Shaw: 1800 HP cross compound
• 1907 Marlborough 1 & 2, Oldham: two 1700 HP vertical triple expansion engines
• 1907 Manor Mill, Chadderton, Oldham: 1500 HP cross compound
• 1907 Texas Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne: 1500 HP vertical engine

• 1908 Hope Spinning Co., Failsworth: 1200 HP vertical cross compound
• 1908 Irk Mill, Middleton: 700 HP Manhattan type
• 1908 Times Mill Co., Avon Mill (1919) Ltd, Middleton: 2500 HP four cylinder triple expansion
• 1908 Rutland Mill, Shaw: 1700 HP cross compound
• 1908 Argyll Mill, Failsworth: 2000 HP cross compound

• 1909 Chadwick and Taylor, Salford: 700 HP Manhattan
• 1909 LCC Fox Mills, Oldham: 1800 HP Manhattan type
• 1909 LCC Kent Mill, Oldham: 1500 HP cross compound
• 1909 Mersey Mill, Failsworth: 1600 HP cross compound
• 1909 Ram Mill, Oldham: 1800 HP cross compound
• 1909 Warwick Mill, Middleton: 1500 HP cross compound

• 1910 Central Mill, Oldham: 1200 HP cross compound
• 1910 Devon Mill, Oldham: 1200 HP cross compound
• 1910 Joseph Rivett, Bankside Mill, South Reddish: 350 HP cross compound
• 1910 Mayall and Massey, Woodley: 600 HP cross compound
• 1910 Rugby Mill, Chadderton: 1200 HP cross compound

• 1911 Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Orme Mill, Waterhead, Oldham: 1250 HP vertical triple expansion
• 1911 Ridgefield Spinning Co., Failsworth: 1200 HP Manhattan compound

• 1912 Butterworth Hall, Milnrow: 1200 HP cross compound
• 1912 Pear New Mill Co, Bredbury: 5000 HP twin Manhattan

• 1914 Hall Lane Mill, Leigh: 1600 HP Manhattan

• 1915 Healey Bros, Mossfield Mill, Heywood: 900 HP cross compound
• 1915 Lily Mill, Shaw: 1800 HP cross compound
• 1915 Swan Lane No. 3, Bolton: 2000 HP triple expansion vertical

• 1919 Summervale Mill, Oldham: 1650 HP cross compound

• 1928 J. J. Hadfield, Bleachworks, Chinley: 450 HP cross compound. Reputedly last G Saxon engine

All of the information concerning the 72 textile mill engines listed above is taken from ‘Steam Engine Research Resources - A List of Steam Powered Sites Compiled by Arthur Roberts and his Friends Between 1930 and 1965, John Albert Pickles’ Notebooks, and a Petrie Engine List’: Compiled and published by Stanley Challenger Graham on LULU.com, June 2009. ISBN 978-1-4092-9009-4

Information from other sources

• 1919 Winterbottom Book Cloth Co., Salford: 400 HP cross compound

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