Fairbottom Bobs
From Graces Guide
A Newcomen Engine originally installed in the second half of the 18th century at a colliery of the Chamber Colliery Co in Ashton-under-Lyne.
There are a few old residents in the neighbourhood who remember its being occasionally, though not regularly, worked some 60 or 70 years ago (1834) for pumping a mine, about which time it seems to have been allowed to fall into disuse.[2]
Stood derelict until bought by Henry Ford in 1931 for his museum in Dearborn, USA. H. F. Morton undertook its recovery and re-erection, and relates the story in a chapter of his book [3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1894/10/05
- ↑ Engineering 1894/10/05
- ↑ 'Strange Commissions for Henry Ford, by H F Morton, MIMechE, York, 1934