Bradley and Craven of Westgate Common Foundry, Wakefield.
1843 Company founded.
1855 A 16-hp A-frame engine installed at Tattershall - Dogdyke.[1]
1858 Richard Bradley and William Craven
1884 Two Rotative Beam Engines for Scarborough Waterworks (Irton Station)[2]
1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Mixing, moulding and pressing machine for bricks and tiles. [3]
1894 Brick and Tile Press. Article and illustration. [4]
1895 Advert. [5]
1898 Became private company.
1900 June. Royal Agricultural Show at York. Showed a brick and tile moulding and pressing machine. [6]
1914 Engineers. Specialities: everything connected with brick, pipe and tile machinery, colliery work, sheet-metal working machinery. Employees 300. [7]
1947/8 Sold the manufacturing rights to the whole range of sheet metal machinery to Butterley Co[8]
1961 Manufacturers of clayworking machinery. 350 employees. [9]
Notes
A working example of an 1856 engine is exhibited at Dogdyke Pumping Station
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ * Fenland Pumping Engines by K. S. G. Hinde, Landmark Publishing Co., 2006 ISBN 1 84306 188 0
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th June 1894 p562
- ↑ The Engineer of 28th September 1894 p284
- ↑ Post Office London Directory, 1895
- ↑ The Engineer of 22nd June 1900 p650
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times, Jul 19, 1948
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10