Sandycroft Foundry Co
of Sandycroft, on the River Dee, Hawarden, near Chester.
1835 Company established in Clwyd, Wales.
c1855 Company moved to Sandycroft, Chester.
1855 Advertisement listing items to be sold by auction at the Sandycroft Foundry and Shipyards sale of stock-in-trade. Items included several unfinished marine engines [1]
1877-82 They built five railway locomotives
1891 Advert. Listed as The Sandycroft Foundry and Engine Works Co. [2]
1898 Thames-Hauraki pump commissioned at Bella Street Pumphouse, Thames, New Zealand, for draining gold mines. Most of the engine was scrapped, but the external bell crank is intact, and the crankshaft to drive it was found buried in a pit when the pumphouse was being restored as the Museum of Technology. The original overhead crane, made by James Spencer of Hollinwood, is still in situ, and this has the date 1896, so presumably the Sandycroft steam pumping machinery construction commenced at that time.
1900 Incorporated as a private limited company.
1907 Large tandem drum winding engine for an overseas mine. Cylinders 30" bore, 6 ft stroke. Mine shaft sloped at a approximately 60 degrees to the horizontal [3] See illustrations.
1909 'Mr. Frank Taylor, of Watford. Herts, of Messrs John Taylor and Sons, civil and mining engineers, head of the Sandycroft Foundry. Ltd. machinery manufacturers, of Sandycroft, Hawarden, a well-known racehorse owner and director of several gold mining companies left £253,732 gross, the net personalty being £207,908.[4]
1911 5500 HP Corliss Winding engine for mines in Southern India. [5]. Cylinders 42" bore, 7 ft stroke. Mineshaft depth 3700 ft, winding speed 3000 ft/min. [6] See illustrations.
1914 Manufacturers of mining and electrical machinery. [7]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Birmingham Gazette - Monday 15th October 1855
- ↑ Post Office London Trades Directory, 1891
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 1st of November 1907
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 9th February 1909
- ↑ The Engineer of 27th October 1911 p438
- ↑ 'Engineering' 27th October 1911
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book