Phoenix Foundry, Derby

Later Phoenix Foundry and Engineering Co.

Maker of components for bridges including Battersea Bridge

1848 'Gigantic Railway Girders.—Within the last few days some interest has been excited at Witham by the arrival of some extraordinary-sized cast iron girders, for two of the two bridges on the line. These girders which were cast at Mr. Heywood's foundry, at Derby, are the largest single girders which have ever been cast, with one exception; they are fifty-three feet four and a half inches in length, and weigh about thirteen tons each. They were brought from Derby to Pickford's wharf in the City-road, by water, and thence moved to the Shoreditch station on the Eastern Counties' line and brought to Witham. On Thursday, the 25th ultimo, the first of these girders was moved from the Witham station on two very strongly-built stone-trucks, drawn by eighteen powerful horses, and accompanied by a staff of the engineers and other gentlemen connected with the formation of the line.— Essex Standard.'. Note: 'Mr. Heywood's foundry is assumed to be Phoenix Foundry.

1861 James Heywood, junior, of Phoenix Foundry and Engineering Works, Derby, exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Society of England meeting in Leeds - exhibited portable stwhicheam engine, threshing machine, etc

1862 Exhibited at the London Exhibition

1870s Also Stacey, Davis and Co

1890 Completed the new Battersea Bridge over the river Thames; also large workshops for the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to produce Hobson's patent flooring.

1893 Truss girder bridge for the Great Southern and Western Railway, crossing Lower Glanmire-road, Cork, on the main line to Queenstown. Designed by Albert Gordon, M. Inst. C.E., Cork. The clear span between the abutments, measured on the skew, is 120 ft. The floor was constructed of steel on Hobson’s patent

1897-9 A. W. Farnsworth was engineer and chief draughtsman.

1901 Offered hydraulic pressed segment socket and flanged steel culverts for electric cables.

1913 Sale notice: 'TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, March 11th & 12th, 1913.
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS, ENGINEERS, CONSTRUCTIONAL IRON WORK CONTRACTORS, IRON FOUNDERS, and Others. HIGHLY IMPORTANT SALE by AUCTION of the well-known WORKS and EQUIPMENT of the PHOENIX FOUNDRY COMPANY, Ltd., Derby.
Mr. DUNCAN J. SHEDDEN is instructed to prepare and offer for SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION,....
....LOT 2. The before-mentioned FREEHOLD SITE of 4,235 square yards, with the ERECTIONS thereon; the Company's interest in the before-mentioned Leasehold portion of the Site of 5,442 square yards, both situate in Stuart Street, Derby (but excluding the Fixed and Loose Plant, the Goodwill and Drawings), more fully described Catalogue under this Lot number.
LOT 3. The FREEHOLD WORKS SITE known as “THE NEW YARD,’’ containing an area of 5,201 square yards, situate in Phoenix Street and Stuart Street, Derby, with the ERECTIONS, FIXED and LOOSE PLANT thereon, described in Catalogue under this Lot number. Failing the Sale of the whole Concern, described in Lot 1. has been decided dismantle and sell the FIXED and LOOSE PLANT, etc., as
LOT 4 et seq., which will he sold subject to Conditions of Sale to be printed the Sale Catalogue, and comprising the whole of the FIXED and LOOSE PLANT, all by well-known makers, OFFICE FITMENTS, GOODWILL and DRAWINGS appertaining to the Concern, and including:— The Valuable Hydraulic Plant, comprising 13-inch and 7-inch Accumulators to 1,500lbs., with pumps and connections to Plate Bending Press, 27 feet by 4 feet 3 inches; a double 16-inch Cylinder Press, with foot stroke; Beam Bending and Angle Iron Cropping Presses, Stiffener Press, with the equipment of Nine Rivetting Machines; 240 tons of Dies for Culvert Pipes, from 9 inches to 72 inches diameter, 30 feet long; Trough Flooring and Hobson’s Patent Flooring; Double and Single Valley Gutters, etc. ; a 10-ton Steam Goliath Crane; a 25-ton Overhead Steam Traveller, 45 feet span; 10 Steam and Hand Cranes, from ton to 5 tons; Five 3-h.p. Electrically driven Foundry Cranes; Geared Foundry Ladles, 1 ton to 5 tons; Three Cupolas, from 1 ton to 5 tons per hour; Steam Hoist and Loading Stallage; Dead-weight Testing Machine, Hay Band Coiling Machine; Sand and Blacking Mills; Three Dennison Weighers, tons to 16 tons; AN 80-H.P. COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE. , Brazil and Holborrow ; 10-h.p. Horizontal Engine, Galloway Boiler, 28 feet 7 feet; Cornish Boiler, 20 feet 6 feet; Steam and Feed Piping; C. and W.I. Tanks; the Ranges of Shafting, Pulleys, etc.. Leather Belting; a 6-cwt. Steam Hammer; Four Massive Planing Machines, with quick return and double tool boxes; Double-headed Shaping Machine, 15-inch stroke, 10-foot bed; Single Shaper, 6-inch stroke; 15- stroke Slotting Machine: Eight 5-foot Radial Drills; Nine Vertical Drilling Machines; a massive 42-inch centre Facing Lathe, on 34-foot bed, with Engine and gears; five S. and S.S. Lathes, 10-inch to 16- centres, on beds 10 feet to 24 feet; 12-inch Double-headed Lathe, 24-foot bed; Three Fitters’ Lathes; 36-inch Brake Lathe, on 12-foot bed;. Double Stilling Machine, 36-inch centre; 8-inch Whitworth Boring Bar; three belt-driven Cold Saw, 20- inch and 28-inch ; Plate-edge Planing Machine, 18- foot bed; Plate Rolls, to 9 feet wide; massive self-contained Punching and Shearing Press, 34-inch and 24-inch gaps, 2 self-contained Punching and Shearing Presses; and one belt-driven ditto; Beam Bending Press : Steam and belt-driven Air Compressors ; Two Air Receivers, with the complement of caulking, rivetting. chipping and holding-up tools; great variety of Engineers’, Smiths’, and Erectors’ Tools;
THE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION, consisting of a 50-h.p. Robey high-speed Vertical Engine; Three Dynamos, 10 and 40-h,p. ; Switches, Cables, Arc and Incandescent Lamps; Gas Piping and Fittings ; the VALUABLE OFFICE FURNITURE; Paragon Time Clock; Smith Premier Typewriter; Safes; Drawing Beards; Desks, etc. ; and THE GOODWILL AND WORKING DRAWINGS, the whole of which, with many other Effects, will fully set out in Catalogues and described in detail. .....'

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