Thwaites Brothers
of Vulcan Ironworks, Thornton Road, Bradford.
formerly Thwaites and Carbutt.
1880 Company on 4 acres and employed 200 men and was the largest (what?) in Bradford.
1880 Name changed to Thwaites Brothers - See Arthur Hirst Thwaites, Edward Hirst Thwaites, William Henry Thwaites and Thomas Hirst Thwaites
1881 Description and drawings of a large Roots-type exhauster for the Swansea Complex Ore Co. To exhaust 30,000 cabic feet of hot gas per minute, against a water column of 18 in., when running at 180 rpm. The rotors were 6ft diameter [1]
1892 Nickel ore smelting plant for New Caledonia [2]
1894 The Howatson Low-Pressure Boiler. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'.[3]
1894 Battery of Filters for Lay Sugar Factory in Cairo.[4]
1901 Advertising steam hammers, steam engine-driven centrifugal pumps (Capell's patent) and Root's blowers, Stewart's Rapid Cupolas, Andrew Howatson's patent water softeners and filters, Goodwin & How's patent ladles, steam and hydraulic hoists, cranes of all descriptions [5]
Description and illustrations of Stewart's patent 'Rapid Cupola' made by Thwaites Bros. [6]
1914 Engineers. Specialities: steam hammers, Roots' blowers, foundry plant and metallurgical installations for copper, lead etc. [7]
1922 Exhibited at The 1922 Foundry Trades Exhibition cupola-charging machinery, which embodied an ingenious patented two-speed mechanism.[8]
1922 Directors: A. D. Ellis, H. S. Clough, and T. H. C. Homersham.
- Vertical steam engine. 12 bhp. Exhibit at Bradford Industrial Museum
- Small vertical reversing steam engine at New Zealand National Maritime Museum, Auckland (photo)
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1881/08/12
- ↑ Engineering 1892/03/04
- ↑ The Engineer 1894/01/05 p3
- ↑ The Engineer 1894/11/16
- ↑ Engineering 1901/02/01
- ↑ 'A Text-Book of Mechanical Engineering' by Wilfrid J. Lineham, Chapman and Hall, 1905, p.1011
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1922/07/07