Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Chiswick Main Drainage Works

From Graces Guide
1879. Pumping engines by Hathorn, Davey and Co

1879 Description of the works, with emphasis on the pumping engines, made by Hathorn, Davey and Co. 'One of the two pairs now at Chiswick was exhibited by the makers with other machinery at Paris, where it gained a gold medal, and where its extreme simplicity of design and directness of action contrasted very favourably with the very opposite characteristics shown in most of the pumping machinery of foreign design. ...'[1]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information