East Ferry Road Engineering Works Co
Hydraulic engineers of Millwall, Isle of Dogs, London, E.
1874 Incorporated as a Limited Company.
1882 Showed models of patent portable hydraulic machinery, such as cranes and hoppers, an hydraulic wagon hoist, suspended hydrostatic weighing machines, and hydraulic valves and fittings, at the Naval and Submarine Exhibition.[1]. 'Mr. C. R. Parkes, the managing director of the above company, has given great attention to improvements in portable hydraulic machinery, and we give on page 333 an illustration of a patent portable hydraulic and hopper which is manufactured by this firm, and has been adopted by docks, railways, &c., complete models being exhibited at the show. It is only within the last few years that the advantages of having their machinery (more especially cranes) movable has been fully recognised by users of hydraulic appliances, although it must be manifest that moving the cranes to plumb the hatchways of a ship, to take the case of dock work, is more reasonable than moving the ship to the cranes. As an example of what has been done in this direction, the Millwall Dock Company may be mentioned as having just brought into operation perhaps the largest and most complete system for the. discharge and storage of grain in England. This extensive work has been designed and carried out by the engineer to the Dock Company, Mr. F. E. Duckham, M.I.C.E. ......'
1883 Erected hydraulic machinery at the Millwall Docks.
1886 Description and illustrations of compound steam driven hydraulic pumps for the Millwall Dock Co. 750 psi, 30,000 gal per hr at max speed. [2]
1888 Advert: Sole manufacturers of Parkes patent portable hydraulic lifts and cranes; F. E. Duckham's weighing machines.
1897 Description and drawings of F. E. Duckham's pneumatic grain elevator for the Danube[3]
1909 Supplied twelve movable hydraulic luffing cranes to Newport Docks[4]
1914 Hydraulic and General Engineers and Contractors. Specialities: hydraulic machinery and grain discharging plants for docks and railways. [5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1882/04/07
- ↑ Engineering 1886/05/14
- ↑ Engineering 1897/01/29
- ↑ 'The Newport Docks & Railway Company' by John Hutton, Silver Link Publishing, 1996, p.57
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book