Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay
Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay of the Vulcan Foundry and Engine Works, Paisley[1].
1838 Company founded as Donald and Craig.
1872 Dissolution of Craig, Fullerton and Co; the copartnery was carried on by Alexander Fullerton, Matthew Hodgart, and John Barclay under the above name.
1892 Incorporated as a limited company.
Maker of stationary engines. [2]
1900 Triple effect Evaporator for a sugar plant illustrated. [3]
1906 Description of mine winding engines for the Reitfontein Estate Gold-Mining Co., East Rand Gold Mining Co, and Rio Tinto Copper Co.[4]
1907 Supplied an engine to T. Whitehead and Co
1908 Description, drawings and photograph of a 'dense air' or 'return flow' winding engine for the Consolidated Gold Fields, South Africa. Charles Cummings, of San Francisco, is credited with introducing this system 'as a means of overcoming, if possible, the inconvenient arrangements required in order to secure efficiency with the ordinary method of using compressed air — i e., when high ratio of pressure limits are used. It is also for this reason named the Cummings system. It is well known that in the ordinary method of transmitting power by means of compressed air, as practised in mines, the air, under a pressure of 6 to 8 atmospheres, has its temperature greatly reduced when it reaches the motor cylinder from what it was when it left the compressor ; indeed, often down to the temperature of the air in the mine. For this reason it will readily be understood that it is not possible to utilise expansion more than to a very limited extent, because when expansion is carried far, the excessive lowering of temperature which follows causes the moisture contained in the air to freeze, and in a short time to obstruct the exhaust passages with ice. ..... In this system the air which is delivered from the compressor is conducted at a given pressure to the engine or motor to be operated, as it would be in the ordinary method of compressed-air transmission. After doing its work in the engine, however, it is not exhausted into the air, as is usual, but is conducted at a lower pressure than it had when it entered the motor, but at the same time much higher than that of the atmosphere, back to the inlet of the compressor cylinder, in which it is recimpressed to the operating pressure, then again forced into the supply-pipe leading from the compressor. It will be seen that in this way the air circulates through the system continuously, and forms what may be called a closed system. ..... As the air in the motor med in the dense-air system is delivered at a pressure of about 170 lb. per square inch absolute, and is expanded to about 85 lb. per square inch absolute, the drop in temperature during expansion is small, and tinre is consequently no danger of freezing up, and no reheating is required. ....' [5]
1910 A speciality was the production castings for turbines for battleships and cruisers [6].
1914 Engineers. Specialities: air compressing engines, high-class slow speed winding and driving engines for mines, mills and power stations; pumping plants; hydraulic installations; cotton pressing plants; evaporators; iron castings up to 50 tons for marine engines and turbines. Employees 700. [7]
1920 Private company.
Large direct-driven electric winder for No. 4 shaft, City Deep Ltd, South Africa. Double cylindroconical drum 17 ft 6" to 35 ft diameter. Length of wind 4500 ft. Also a geared drive electric winder for Simmer and Jack Mines Ltd, South Africa. Length of wind 6300 ft[8]
1935 Article describing five winders for South African gold mines which had a larger single vertical lift
than any so far constructed. They were to wind from a depth of 6,660 ft. Three of the winders were for Simmer and Jack Gold Mines, Limited, and two for Sub-Nigel, Limited. The main contractors were Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co of Trafford Park, the
mechanical parts being supplied by Blanc and Co. of Johannesburg, and manufactured
by Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, Limited, of Vulcan Works, Paisley. Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, during the year
1934 themselves shipped the mechanical parts for
20 winders for gold-mine service ; 17 of these
for South Africa, 1 for Canada, 1 for the Mysore
goldfields, and 1 for the Trepca Mines in Yugoslavia. The ropes, which were made by
Hood Haggie and Company, Limited, of Johannesburg, were 2 in. in diameter, and were of the flattened strand
pattern. The main reduction gearing was made by Metropolitan Vickers.
The spiral groove in the drums was machined in a special rig driven from the mandrel by the bevel gear seen in the 1935 photo. The cone was mounted on temporary spiders. A long lathe bed was fixed in front of the cone, and carried a compound swivelling slide rest. The lead screw of the
bed was geared up to suit the pitch of the spiral,
and the forming of the grooves was carried out to
template by manipulation of the slide-rest handles.
[9]
1960 Steam and electric winders for mining.
1961 Engineers and manufacturers of winding engines, air and gas compressors, hydraulic pumps, cargo gears and evaporators. 250 employees. [10]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 6 April 1910
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ The Engineer of 6th April 1900 p374
- ↑ Engineering 1906/06/22
- ↑ Engineering 1908/03/13
- ↑ The Times, 6 April 1910
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ [1] Some Outstanding Mine-hoisting Equipment'. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Technical Publication No. 1190, 1940
- ↑ Engineering 1935/03/22
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- Mining Year Book 1960. Published by Walter E. Skinner. Advert p341
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6