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 173,102 pages of information and 249,768 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.

Dick and Stevenson

From Graces Guide
1875.
1875.
1886. Rolling mill engines, Woodside Works, Coatbridge.

Dick and Stevenson of Airdrie Engine Works, Bell Street, Airdrie built machinery and stationary engines.

1790 The firm was founded around this date.

1860s The firm was known as Dick, Stevenson and Dick.

1879 Description of a duplex ventilating fan installed at High Blantyre Collieries, near Glasgow, 'at which, as will be fresh in the memories of most of our readers a calamitous fire damp explosion took place towards the close of 1877.'[1]

1890 The works closed after building around fifty locomotives. [2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Engineering 1879/02/28
  2. British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816