Manchester Steam Users Association
Manchester Steam Users Association for the prevention of boiler explosions and for the attainment of economy in the application of steam
41 Corporation Street, Manchester.
1854 William Fairbairn addressed a meeting in Manchester proposing a voluntary association to prevent boiler explosions and improve fuel economy[1]
1853 (more probably 1855) Robert Bewick Longridge was appointed chief inspector[2] of the Manchester Association for the prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions.
1858 Robert Longridge left the association
1862 Lavington Evans Fletcher was chief engineer
1869 Lavington Fletcher was chief engineer of the Manchester Association for the Prevention of Boiler Explosions[3].
1875 At a commemoration of the death of the President, Sir William Fairbairn, the Vice-Presidents of the Association were Sir Joseph Whitworth, Thomas Bazley, Hugh Mason and John Penn[4].
1875 Mr Fletcher, of the Manchester Steam Users Association testified as to the cause of a boiler explosion[5].
1876 Classified under Boiler Insurance and Inspection Companies[6].
1896 Only one of 44 boiler explosions that the Association had recorded in the past year occurred in a boiler of a member of the Association, and that was in "peculiar circumstances"[7].
1927 Mr Harold Lee was president of the Association.[8]