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 174,149 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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A. F. Smulders

From Graces Guide
1891. Floating Elevator and Spoil Distributor for the Baltic Sea Canal.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1897. Floating Dock for the Portuguese Government, for San Paulo De Loanda [1]
1903. Suction and Bucket Dredger.
1914.
1921. 60 ton floating crane for the Manchester Ship Canal.
1921.
1926.

A. F. Smulders and Co, of Rotterdam, and of Utrecht (1891), Netherlands.

Also NV Chaudronneries AF Smulders of Grâce-Berleur, near Liège (Belgium)

Became Werf Gusto.

1891 Description of floating elevator and spoil distributor for the Baltic Sea Canal [2]

In the early 1890s, Smulders purchased the Renson company in Grâce-Berleur near Liège in Belgium. The company successively bore the names Renson, Renson-Smulders (J. Renson – AF Smulders & Co.), Smulders, and Babcock-Smulders.[3]

1897 Description, drawing and photo of floating dock for Paulo de Loanda. [4]

1934 Description of a 'Jiges' boiler, designed in 1925 by a Swedish engineer, Mr. J. G. Sandwall, developed by the Society Anonyme des Chaudronneries A. F. Smulders, Grace-Berleur-lez-Chaudronneries A. F. Smulders, Chaudronneries, Liège, Belgium, and installed in a paper mill belonging to the Societe Anonyme des Papeteries de Genval, at Genval, Belgium.[5]. Note: A. F. Smulders, Chaudronneries was a sister company of A. F. Smulders and Co of Schiedam. [6]

1934 Description of Frey de-dusting washer, made by SA des Chaudronneries A. F. Smulders, Grâce-Berleur, Liège.[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Engineering, 10 Sept 1897
  2. Engineering 1891/02/20
  3. [2] NV Chaudronneries AF Smulders
  4. Engineering 1897/09/10
  5. Engineering 1934/01/05
  6. [3] Werf Gusto Schiedam Digital Museum
  7. Engineering 1934/09/28