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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
1894 The Howatson Low-Pressure Boiler. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'.[1]
1894 Battery of Filters for Lay Sugar Factory in Cairo.[2]
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 [3]
1914 Engineers. Specialities: steam hammers, Roots' blowers, foundry plant and metallurgical installations for copper, lead etc. [4]
1922 Exhibited at The 1922 Foundry Trades Exhibition cupola-charging machinery, which embodied an ingenious patented two-speed mechanism.[5]
1922 Directors: A. D. Ellis, H. S. Clough, and T. H. C. Homersham.
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