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. Dryden and Sons

From Graces Guide

of Grimshaw Street Foundry, Preston, Lancs

1871 Company founded by Thomas Dryden, who died in 1918.

Then managed by his son, William Dryden, Senior

Subsequently were mechanical and electrical engineers, managed by his son, William Dryden, Junior, who died in 1942, just before his father.

By 1962 Thomas Dryden and Sons was a subsidiary of Oxley Engineering Co. It was planned to expand.




  • Single cylinder horizontal steam engine at Khanaungyenk, Burma (Myanmar). The engine appears to be of a very old design. [1]


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Sources of Information

  1. [1] ‘The International Steam Pages’ website