Screw Pile Co
George Henry Saunders joined Mr. T. W. Mitchell, the grandson of the Inventor of the Screw Pile and Mooring, and undertook the erection, as Contractor, of the Gunfleet Lighthouse, founded upon Mitchell's Screw Piles ; this offered considerable difficulties, which were overcome with great skill, and to the entire satisfaction of Messrs. Walker and Burges, the Engineers.
This induced him to become the sole Licensee of the Screw Pile Company, and to devote himself almost entirely to the prosecution of works on that system, which he employed in several important constructions, such as the Foundations to a Viaduct on the South-Eastern Railway, a Pier at Victor Bay, Colon, in South America, for the Royal West India Mail Steam Packet Company, a Beacon at Calais for the French Government, &c. ; he also laid down screw moorings in most of the ports and harbours of England, as well as abroad.