A. Borsig
of Tegel, Berlin
The works in Egells, Berlin, were founded in 1837 by August Borsig and continued by the son of the founder, Albert Borsig
1841 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS UPON MACHINERY. .... EVIDENCE GIVEN BY JAMES EMERSON TENNENT, ESQ., A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE.
MACHINE-MAKING IN PRUSSIA .... one manufactory which I visited (the proprietor of which was Mr. Borsig) was near the Brandenburgh-gate, and Mr. Borsig had been himself a pupil and educated at the Gewerbe Institut. What class of machinery does he make? Chiefly heavy machinery. Are the Committee to understand by heavy machinery, engines? Steam-engines, locomotives, hydraulic presses and machines of power. Was he manufacturing what we now call tools in this country? His tools are partly imported from England, and partly manufactured by himself. On the latter he very much prided himself, and some of them appeared to me to show extreme ingenuity, and to be very material improvements upon the tools in ordinary use in England; amongst others, I may instance a drilling machine, in which the article which was to be pierced was pressed upwards against the drill by introducing beneath it an hydraulic press, the object of which was, to give a much more equal and continuous pressure than the system which is in operation in England. I may mention, that one very large planing machine which I saw at M. Borsig's establishment, had been recently presented to him by the government, having been imported from England, and copied. Was that one of the machines which you state the government were generally in the habit of importing at their own cost, and presenting, after taking a facsimile of it, to some leading manufacturer? This practice goes even further, for this was a tool imported from England, not for the sake of its novelty, but for the sake of presenting to a successful manufacturer of machinery. .....'[1]
1886 The Egells locomotive works closed but other lines of business continued.[2]
1896 Description of compound engines at the Berlin Industrial Exhibition [3][4]
1907 London agent: Robert Weatherburn; catalogue of locomotives for industrial purposes[5]
1908 London agents: J. M. Gummerson and Kenneth R. Pearson
1913 UK agents: E. C. Amos, of Cannon St, London - possibly this is Ewart Charles Amos
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Ulster Times - 1 June 1841
- ↑ The Engineer 1886/11/12
- ↑ Engineering 1896/08/07
- ↑ Engineering 1896/10/02
- ↑ The Engineer 1907/12/13