[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by rivetlad

I am a keen collector of brass maker's plates from " Mill " Steam engines.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries several Accrington engineering firms built steam engines of this type. Two spring to mind:

C. WHITTAKER & Co--Made Brick Manufacturing Plant, and small to medium sized steam engines.

LANG BRIDGE & Co--Machinery for the Cotton Mills and Steam Engines.

I would be interested inhearing from anyone who has brass makers plates from these Accrington Engineering Companys, as well as old brochures, letterheads, and historic photographs of mill engines.
Contact me by email: [email protected]

I served my apprentice ship at Lang Bridges as a Pattern Maker, Langs kept all the patterns for any thing they had ever made, in 4 pattern stores in the factory, many times I had to search the stores for a pattern, to cast a new part for some machine Langs had once built. I never came across any patterns for steam engines, nor have I ever heard of them making any. Somtimes I would be sent to a local factory, to get the numbers off the part that needed to be replaced, Steiners was one of their main customers, went there many times, to check the broken part.
Things started to go down hill at Langs in the early 1950's, I transferred to Bulloughs, and worked there for 5 years.
Retlaw.