Kay Street Mills, Preston

of Preston

1891 Directory: Listed. More details

1917 Sale Notice: 'RE THE KAY STREET COTTON SPINNING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
KAY-STREET MILLS, PRESTON.
SALE ONE OR MORE LOTS OF THE VALUABLE FREEHOLD COTTON SPINNING MILL and PREMISES, known "KAY STREET MILLS." PRESTON.
EDWARD RUSHTON, SON, & KENYON are instructed by the Receiver and Liquidator herein to Offer for Sale Auction, on the PREMISES, as above, ... the above FREEHOLD COTTON SPINNING MILLS and PREMISES, together with the Motive Power Plant, Machinery and Loose Effects .... THE BUILDINGS are built of brick, and comprise 2 Main Spinning Mills, Store Rooms, Engine House, Boiler House, Chimney, etc., and also the Building at present in the occupaion of Messrs. J. H. Ranson and Co., Machinery Merchants.
THE STEAM POWER PLANT includes Steel Lancashire Steam Boiler. 30ft. 0in. long x 8ft. 6in. diameter, by Yates and Thom, working at 135lbs pressure: Leach’s Mechanical Stokers: Green’s Fuel Economiser, 144 pipes ; First-class Horizontal Tandem Condensing Steam Engine, with 17 1/2-h.p. [in.!] Cylinder, 34in. diameter L. P. Cylinder, 36in. stroke, with twelve-grooved rope pulley, by Musgrave and Sons, Ltd., Bolton, 1905 (500 I.H. Power); Steam Barring Engine; 5-ton Engine House Travelling Crane, by Dryden, Preston:

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