Chester Steam Corn Mills
1868 Advertisement: 'On Wednesday Next. Very Important Sale of Steam Engines, at the STEAM CORN MILLS, Chester. MR. WHEATLEY KIRK announces that he is instructed by the proprietors, Messrs. F. A. Frost and Sons, to SELL BY AUCTION, on Wednesday next. March 4,1863, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Hop-pole Inn, Foregate-street, Chester, TWO Valuable STEAM ENGINES, now on the premises their Steam Mills, in Chester aforesaid, and which are being taken out to make room for much larger power, viz.:—One most excellent condensing beam engine, bore of cylinders 34½in; stroke. 5ft; beam, 17ft 6in ; ponderous flywheel, in segments, 21ft diameter, weighs 40 tons; side pipes, &c, renewed by Peel, Williams and Co.; also one capital condensing horizontal engine, by Adam Woodward, Queen's Foundry, Manchester, bore of cylinder, 30in ; stroke, 5ft; tappet or Cornish valve; wrought-iron shaft, 7ft 6in by l0in diameter; air pump and condenser, the air pump, bucket, lid, foot and delivery valves all faced with brass; flywheel, 21ft 2in and weighs 20 tons; bed plate measures 24ft. 8in by 3ft 7in; 32ft of steam pipes; spur wheel, 7ft 4in, 8in. face, 3in. pitch ; pinion for ditto, 4in; wrought-iron railing; spare horizontal cylinder, 26½in for working 5ft stroke, &c. Further particulars in catalogues, which may be had at the Steam Mills, in Chester, where the engines may be viewed; or at the offices of the Auctioneer, 8, Essex-street, King-street, Manchester.' [1]
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- ↑ Chester Chronicle, 29th February 1868