C. L. Hett
C. L. Hett of the Turbine Foundry / Ancholme Foundry, Brigg, Lincolnshire
1872 Company formed by Charles Louis Hett when he took over the Ancholme Foundry from William Hart
1876 Bid for a boiler at Ely[1]
1880 Description of a small pumping plant, consisting of a turbine and set of pumps erected for the Midland Railway Co. in the valley at Blackwell Mill, near Buxton. 'The machinery was at first put down to raise water from an engine working a stone breaker, but the supply is we believe now used for a water crane also. The original inquiry was for a pump to raise 300 gallons per hour 82ft. high, but the machinery we illustrate was, when fixed, found to raise 480 gallons p er hour 102 ft. high. .... This arrangement of pumps has been used by Mr. Hett in connexion with a 10 ft. water wheel (cast complete in three parts) for the supply of Longhills and Branston Grange, near Lincoln, and he has also employed the same type in connexion with wind engines, for which it is admirably adapted. ...'. See illustration.[2]
1882 Supplied a centrifugal pump to East Butterwick Pumping Station near Gainsborough.[3]
1886 Produced a centrifugal pump and single cylinder vertical steam engine for circulating water on the Greek Government’s ship Eldorado. [4]
1891 Designed a turbine governor with very simple action[5]
1894 Hett's Pelton Wheel for driving a blowing engine at a mine
1895 C L Hett taken over by Gilbert Gilkes of Kendal (see Gilbert Gilkes and Co)
1896 Charles Hett retired from the business
1912 Hett-designed 'Trent' turbine installed at Cressbrook Mill, Derbyshire[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1876/11/17
- ↑ Engineering 1880/12/10
- ↑ Fenland Pumping Engines by K. S. G. Hinde, Landmark Publishing Co., 2006 ISBN 1 84306 188 0
- ↑ The Engineer 1886/06/18
- ↑ The Engineer 1891/08/28
- ↑ International Stationary Steam Engine Society (ISSES) Bulletin Vol 30 No. 3 (2009) pp 30, 31
- Steam Engine Builders of Lincolnshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1955 by Goose and Son
- Ploughs, Chaff Cutters and Steam Engines. Edited by Ken Redmore – Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. Published 2007. ISBN 978 0 903582 308.