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'''Wren & Hopkinson''' of London Road Ironworks, Altrincham Street Manchester. The address also appears as Temple Street, Manchester. The works was evidently at the junction of these two streets, on the west side of Temple Street. The area has now been completely redeveloped. | '''Wren & Hopkinson''' of London Road Ironworks, Altrincham Street Manchester. The address also appears as Temple Street, Manchester. The works was evidently at the junction of these two streets, on the west side of Temple Street. The area has now been completely redeveloped. | ||
Formerly [[Wren and Bennett]], and then '''Wren, Wren & Hopkinson''' | |||
Maker of stationary engines. <ref>Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10</ref> | Maker of stationary engines. <ref>Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10</ref> | ||
Other products included textile machinery, gears for mills and steamships, waterwheels, hydraulic presses & pumps. | Other products included textile machinery, gears for mills and steamships, waterwheels, hydraulic presses & pumps. | ||
1851 Fire at premises that front Altrincham street and Temple street <ref>London Standard - Tuesday 28 October 1851</ref><ref>Morning Post - Thursday 30 October 1851</ref> | 1851 Fire at premises that front Altrincham street and Temple street <ref>London Standard - Tuesday 28 October 1851</ref><ref>Morning Post - Thursday 30 October 1851</ref> | ||
Revision as of 11:21, 28 November 2012
Wren & Hopkinson of London Road Ironworks, Altrincham Street Manchester. The address also appears as Temple Street, Manchester. The works was evidently at the junction of these two streets, on the west side of Temple Street. The area has now been completely redeveloped.
Formerly Wren and Bennett, and then Wren, Wren & Hopkinson
Maker of stationary engines. [1]
Other products included textile machinery, gears for mills and steamships, waterwheels, hydraulic presses & pumps.
1851 Fire at premises that front Altrincham street and Temple street [2][3]
1855 'THE FLOATING BATTERIES FOR THE BALTIC.-It may be interesting to our readers to know that some portion of the machinery for the floating batteries preparing for the Baltic, has been constructed in Manchester during the last few days. The batteries are vessels of great tonnage, built very square, each 50 feet breadth of beam, 7 feet draught of water, and are pierced on each side for 16 guns, the armament being 16 68-pounders ; so that the whole of the guns can be used on either one side or the other. The sides are cased two feet below the water line with solid wrought iron plates four inches thick. They were originally intended to be propelled by one screw of six feet diameter, but when almost ready for launching, it was considered that a single screw would not afford sufficient surface to act against the water for the propulsion of vessels of such large tonnage and of necessarily unfavourable lines, and it was determined to furnish each vessel with three screws, each six feet diameter, as no larger could be obtained with so small a draught of water. The two secondary screws are fixed upon shafts parallel to the main shaft, which runs as usual in the centre of the vessel, from the engines to the stern; motion being given from it by an iron spur-wheel, working into a wheel with wood cogs on each secondary shaft. The arrangements for connecting are so made that any one, any two, or all three screw propellers may be in work at one time, with the obvious advantage that if one or two of the propellers become injured or thrown out of use by shot or otherwise, the remaining one is still available. This additional means of propulsion having been decided on at the last moment, the utmost expedition was needful to prevent delay in the launching of the vessels, and Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Salkeld, of London, were commissioned to effect the change in three of the five batteries. They directed their energies to the preparation of the needful shafts, screws, and fixings connected with them, and entrusted the construction of the toothed gearing to Messrs Wren, Wren, and Hopkinson, millwrights, of this city. The order was received on Good Friday, and by some exertion the nine large wheels required were completed in ten days; the last having been forwarded to London on Tuesday last.' [4]
John Dewhurst's Belle Vue Mills in Skipton designed by Wren & Hopkinson [5]
1857 Agreement for construction of six grinding machines for glass makers Chance Brothers of Smethwick [6]
1867 At The French Exhibition: 'Messrs. Wren and Hopkinson exhibit much valuable machinery— compound oscillating engines, travelling cranes, Mohler's patent for lubricating axles and shaft journals, Smith's doubling and winding frame, and and Smith's spooling machine, which is creating a sensation, and taking extensive demands from French spinners.'[7]
1880 Supplied overhead cranes (rope-driven) for Joseph Whitworth & Company’s new Openshaw works.[8]
John Hopkinson, one of the partners, started as an apprentice with Wren and Bennett, eventually becoming a partner in that company.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ London Standard - Tuesday 28 October 1851
- ↑ Morning Post - Thursday 30 October 1851
- ↑ Hull Packet - Friday 27th April 1855
- ↑ [1] Skipton Conservation Areas Appraisal, 2008
- ↑ [2] Black Country History website
- ↑ Birmingham Journal - Saturday 4th May 1867
- ↑ ‘Design and Work’ magazine.