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Buckley & Taylor was a British engineering company that manufactured stationary steam engines.It was the largest firm of engine makers in Oldham, Lancashire, England.The company produced large steam-driven engines for textile mills in Oldham and exported to India, Holland and Brazil.
Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines.Founded in the English West Midlands around Birmingham in 1775 as a partnership between the English manufacturer Matthew Boulton and the Scottish engineer James Watt, the firm had a major role in the Industrial Revolution and grew to be a major ...
Category for manufacturers of steam engines – that is, stationary steam engines and marine steam engines. (Manufacturers of steam railway locomotives (often known colloquially as steam engines) are listed elsewhere.)
The Company, initially known as W. H. Allen & Co was founded in 1880 by William Henry Allen as a manufacturer of centrifugal pumps and steam engines in York Street, Lambeth, London. [1] [2] Electric light generating machinery followed with the support of Gisbert Kapp.
Thornewill and Warham Ltd was a metal hardware and industrial metalwork manufacturer, later an engineering company, based in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England.Under different names it traded from 1740 until 1929, becoming a notable producer of steam engines and railway locomotives.
Diamond Queen traction engine, manufactured by Charles Burrell & Sons, 1897. Charles Burrell built the company's first steam engine in 1848. Initially like most other manufacturers they built portable engines but they gradually moved into self-moving agricultural engines and later engines built specifically for road transport.
There were a large number of manufacturers in Great Britain. Most started life as agricultural engineers, and many exported engines all over the world. Some of the manufacturers are listed below: William Allchin Ltd, Northampton – (MERL database entry) John Allen & Co., Oxford - best Known for the Allen Scythe. [1] Aveling & Porter, Rochester ...
J&H McLaren was a British engineering company in Hunslet, Leeds, England, that manufactured traction engines, stationary engines and later, diesel engines. The company was founded in 1876 by John and Henry McLaren. They had both been apprenticed to Black, Hawthorn & Co of Gateshead