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Walker, Eaton and Co
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of Wicker Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield
1853 Steel Converters and Refiners, Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, etc.
1857 Steel Converters and Refiners. [1]
1855 and 1860? Double beam engine at Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mill Co., Millsands, Sheffield[2].
1875: "3rd April 1875 Coal Aston Collieries: Messrs. James Rhodes and Sons who have worked out the colliery are to sell by auction the 16 H.P. engine by Walker Eaton and Co. A 22 H.P. horizontal engine by Walker Eaton, 12 H.P. vertical engine and two large boilers by Wood Brothers. 88 coke ovens. The colliery is about 1 1/2 miles from Dronfield."[3]
1883 Supplied rolling plant comprising an 18 in. forgetrain with squeezer, pendulum shears, and engines, a 14 in. and 10 in. merchant mill, hot-saw, and two shingling-hammers for the abortive Onehunga ironsands smelting project in New Zealand. The equipment appears to have subsequently gone to China.[4]
1899 Acquired by Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] White's Directory of Derbyshire
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000
- ↑ [2]oldminer.co.uk website
- ↑ [3]Online version of 'New Zealand Ironsands: an Historical Account of an Attempt to Smelt Ironsands at Onehunga in 1883' by J M Chambers. Read before the Technological Section of the Wellington Philosophical Society, 13th June, 1917