Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

T. Middleton and Co

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January 1880.
January 1888.

of Southwark

Murray's patent brickmaking machinery of Loman Street, Southwark, London.

c.1840 Beam engine for Baker Street Mill, Orsett. [1]

1866 Engine for booster at the South Metropolitan Gas Works, Old Kent Road

1874 Built a clockwork tram! This had coiled springs which were wound up by a steam engine at the depot. Did not enter commercial service.[2]

1882 A sale of surplus plant and machinery at the Tide Mills, Sittingbourne (evidently a paper mill), included a 40 HP compound beam engine by Middleton.[3]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Plate 59, ‘The End of a Revolution: The Last Days of Stationary Steam’ by Colin Bowden, Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2008
  2. [1] Tramway Information website
  3. East Kent Gazette - Saturday 14 October 1882
  • The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6