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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Wallshaw Mills, Oldham

From Graces Guide

of Mumps, Oldham.

  • Sale advertisement: Property and plant including the following engines and boilers: 'Pair of beam engines, with high-pressure cylinder 38in., and low pressure 40in., 6ft. stroke 60 nominal horse, by Fairbairn; Horizontal Steam Engine 26in. cylinder, 4ft. 6in. stroke, 26 nominal horse, by Woolstenhulme and Rye, 1876; A Beam Engine, with cylinders 31in. and 33in. respectively, 6ft. stroke, 40 nominal horse, by Rothwell, of Bolton; Vertical Steam Engine, compound, 20 horse, with cylinders 12in. and 18in. respectively, stroke, by Buckley and Taylor; Eight Steam Boilers, each 30ft. By 7ft., all J. Pritchard and Son and the Oldham Boiler Works Company Limited, two of which were made in 1876.'[1]



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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 7 December 1883