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Abercarn Tinplate Works

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of Abercarn

1859 Listed under Newport and Tin Plate Manufacturers. 'Abercarn Tin Co, Abercarn Works. John Green - Agent'.[1]

1865 Explosion kills 13 [2]

1880 'Bursting of a Flywheel.- On Saturday at the Abercarn Tin Works a flywheel, weighing about 30 tons, burst while in full operation, scattering huge fragments of iron in all directions. Damage amounting to several hundred pounds was done, and several narrow escapes are reported.' [3]

1911 Installed an engine from John Musgrave and Sons

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1859 Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops, and Wales,
  2. ↑ The Engineer 1865/12/08
  3. ↑ Engineering 1880/07/23
  • The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
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