Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, originally called The Bridgewater Foundry, specialised in the production of heavy machine tools and locomotives. It was...
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hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company manufacturers of machine tools. He retired at the age of 48, and moved to Penshurst, Kent where...
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GWR Firefly Class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company. The name is that of a Greek mythological warrior. See Achilles. Actaeon 1841–1868. Built by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, the...
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0-4-0 built 1841 Driving wheels 5'0" diameter, Cylinders 13x18 Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, Patricroft 20. Lightning 2-2-0 built 1840 Driving wheels 5'6"...
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Factory (category Industrial buildings and structures)
Historic Site Lowell Mills Springfield Armory Harpers Ferry Armory Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company also called the Bridgewater Foundry Baldwin Locomotive Works...
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engineering firm of Galloway & Sons. When this company failed, he joined the business of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company in their factory at Patricroft, Manchester...
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Nasmyth which led to the creation of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company and the building of the Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft near Manchester. Nasmyth recalls...
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John Viret Gooch (category Locomotive builders and designers)
wide range of private manufacturers such as Edward Bury and Company and Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company. From Jan 1843 the LSWR's own Nine Elms Locomotive Works...
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Lickey Incline (section History and geography)
were built in England, three by Benjamin Hick and Sons and six by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, however only the five Class A Extra type could mount the...
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GWR Hercules Class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
first 0-6-0 locomotives, being built in 1842 by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company stemming from the company's need for goods locomotives. This resulted in the...
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Industrial cranes were used to handle heavy machinery at the Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company (Bridgewater foundry) in the late 1830s. Hydraulic powered cranes...
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ROF Patricroft (redirect from Nasmyth Business Centre)
Foundry had been the main site of machine tool and locomotive manufacturer Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company, founded in 1836. It had stopped manufacturing locomotives...
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Republic of Ireland. B. Hick and Sons Rothwell and Company Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway Midland Counties Railway...
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became known as Lowell Mills and the Waltham-Lowell system. The Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company's Bridgewater Foundry, which began operation in 1836, was one...
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Russell Crampton and built by various firms from 1846. The main British builders were Tulk and Ley and Robert Stephenson and Company. Notable features...
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The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (YN&BR) was an English railway company formed in 1847 by the amalgamation of the York and Newcastle Railway as...
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James McConnell Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company In its authorising Act of Parliament the company was referred to as the Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway...
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List of locomotive builders (redirect from Phoenix Engine Company)
Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Motor Rail Muir-Hill Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company Neilson & Company – became Neilson Reid & Company in 1898; to North British...
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Coulthard and Company in 1853. 1836 Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company, Patricroft Became James Nasmyth in 1850. 1837 Henry Stothert and Company, Bristol, Became...
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Scottish engineer James Nasmyth, in partnership with Holbrook Gaskell, built the Bridgewater Foundry in Patricroft. Nasmyth chose Patricroft, located...
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Company Kerr, Stuart & Company Leeds Forge Company Manning Wardle Metro-Cammell Metropolitan-Vickers Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Nasmyth...
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Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in Early Modern Travellers' Accounts c. 1600 to 1800. Waxmann Verlag. p. 347. ISBN 978-3-8309-1699-4. Gaskell, Jeremy (2000)...
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Manchester (section Museums and galleries)
industrialisation had brought. They include Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), and studies such as The Condition of the Working...
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North Downs Line (section Proposal and authorisation)
have been SER 2-4-0 engines, designed by James Cudworth. A Nasmyth and Gaskell 0-6-0 and a Hick 2-4-0 are known to have worked the line in the mid-1850s...
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constituent companies, or acquired through amalgamations. This article uses the class groups and names from Sheppard (2008), as the most recent and most authoritative...
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James Cudworth (engineer) (category Locomotive builders and designers)
on the SER: he planned the layout of Ashford Works and brought it to such a standard that the company was able to begin production of its own locomotives...
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