Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,342 pages of information and 246,084 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Robert Campbell (2)

From Graces Guide

of Buscot Park, Berkshire (or Gloucestershire)

1866 Demonstrated a water wheel built with Baldwin Latham

1870 Patent application by Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, in the county of Gloucester, Gentleman, and Charles James Appleby, of Emerson-street, in the borough of Southwark, Engineer, for the invention of "improvements in treating beet and other roots and vegetable bodies, in order to extract saccharine and other matters therefrom,and in machinery or apparatus for effecting the same." Partly a communication to them from abroad by Jules Leplay, of Paris, France, and partly the result of invention made by themselves[1]

1871 Obtained a 2' 8" gauge railway locomotive from Appleby Brothers for Buscot Park Estate [2]


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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 13 Jan 1871
  2. Engineering 20th January 1871, p.43