Difference between revisions of "William Wilkins"
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Lathe and Tool Makers | Lathe and Tool Makers. Products included engineers' lathes and ornamental turning lathes. | ||
1842 Sale notice: 'To Amateur and Professional Turners, Engineers, and Others. — Turning Lathes, and Philosophical Instruments. TOPLIS and SON have been favoured with instructions to SELL by AUCTION, at their Rooms, No. 16, St. Paul's Churchyard, on Wednesday, June 1, at One precisely, a very complete LATHE, late the property of the Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick, deceased, with eccentric and other chucks, and numerous apparatus for ornamental turning, the whole made by Holtzapffel and Co., and in excellent condition. Also, the property of a gentleman leaving for the Continent, an oxyhydrogen microscope, a glassblower's table, a model of a vibrating and condensing steam-engine, a model of a locomotive engine, a beautiful model of a howitzer, a piece of asbestos cloth, two microscopes, a mahogany work bench, with tools. Also the turning lathes and tools of Mr. Wilkins, engineer, Long-acre, comprising several excellent iron lathes, with double gear, slide, rests, &c. A 15-inch engineer's powerful lathe, with iron handle and wheel, and all the working tools and anvils, numerous castings for lathe frames, and a valuable assortment of steam-engine and lathe patterns, and other effects.— May be viewed the day preceding, and morning of sale, and catalogues had at the rooms.'<ref>Morning Herald (London) - Saturday 28 May 1842 </ref> | |||
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Revision as of 18:14, 23 July 2021
of 85 Long Acre, London
Lathe and Tool Makers. Products included engineers' lathes and ornamental turning lathes.
1842 Sale notice: 'To Amateur and Professional Turners, Engineers, and Others. — Turning Lathes, and Philosophical Instruments. TOPLIS and SON have been favoured with instructions to SELL by AUCTION, at their Rooms, No. 16, St. Paul's Churchyard, on Wednesday, June 1, at One precisely, a very complete LATHE, late the property of the Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick, deceased, with eccentric and other chucks, and numerous apparatus for ornamental turning, the whole made by Holtzapffel and Co., and in excellent condition. Also, the property of a gentleman leaving for the Continent, an oxyhydrogen microscope, a glassblower's table, a model of a vibrating and condensing steam-engine, a model of a locomotive engine, a beautiful model of a howitzer, a piece of asbestos cloth, two microscopes, a mahogany work bench, with tools. Also the turning lathes and tools of Mr. Wilkins, engineer, Long-acre, comprising several excellent iron lathes, with double gear, slide, rests, &c. A 15-inch engineer's powerful lathe, with iron handle and wheel, and all the working tools and anvils, numerous castings for lathe frames, and a valuable assortment of steam-engine and lathe patterns, and other effects.— May be viewed the day preceding, and morning of sale, and catalogues had at the rooms.'[1]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Morning Herald (London) - Saturday 28 May 1842