Pearce Brothers
From Graces Guide
of Lilybank Foundry and Craigie Shipyard, Dundee
1865 Horizontal single cylinder steam engine at Thompson & Co's Ashgrove Works (flax mill) in Blairgowrie. The engine assisted a waterwheel, driving through double helical gearing. Photographed by George Watkins in 1966, who recorded the maker as 'Pierce Bros.'[1]
1879 The sale of the Scouringburn Works and Mill of William Chalmers and Son included a pair of horizontal high pressure engines by Pearce Bros.[2]
1886 Ceased trading. The Craigie yard became the West Caledon Yard of W. B. Thompson and Co.[3]
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