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Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00286
Centre Lathe.
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00287
Lathe with 4 speed cone pulley.
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00288
Double headed shaping machine, belt driven
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00289
Shaping machines ready for despatch to China
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00290
Double headed shaping machine, motorised
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00291
Shaping machine, belt driven
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00292
Belt driven double headed shaping machine
Belt driven, four speed, double headed shaping machine - DEP00293
Location unknown
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00294
Four speed lathe
Broadbent Lathe - DEP00297
In Southern Sudan
Broadbent Lathe - DEP00298
Drill string pipe machining drill connection for drilling rigs. Situated in Southern Sudan.
Broadbent Lathe - DEP00299
Machining part of valve assembly in Southern Sudan
Frostholme Mill, Cornholme. - MOT00185
Carson Whiteside, Chief Engineer. In 1959 the steam engine became redundant and in 1960 it was dismantled by a small gang headed by Corson Whiteside, the chief engineer. The flywheel was 20 ft in diameter and each spoke weighed over 19 cwt.
Frostholme Mill, Cornholme. - MOT00187
The 2nd motion and DC generator
Holt's Picker Works, Eastwood, c1930 - MOT00231
In the centre is Arnold Knight who lived nearby at Callis Bridge. Arnold was laid off in 1934 because of the trade depression caused by the Wall Street crash. Information supplied by his grandson Jonathan Greenwood.
Manufacturing Engineers - MOT00103
Machinery for the textile industry was manufactured in various Todmorden engineering workshops.
Machinery Advertisement - MOT00104
William Mitchell;, Todmorden, catalogue advertisement.
Machinery Advertisement - MOT00105
Thwaite and Dobson, Cinderhill Mill, Castle Street, Todmorden - advertisement.
Lifeboat Saturday Parade - MOT00290
Aston and Barker's wagon is paraded through the town in the Lifeboat Saturday procession on 7th July 1906
Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292
Several Todmorden firms produced or maintained the machinery used in the cotton factories. Lord Bros. produced textile machinery, often building looms to their own specification. Jeremiah Jackson was also in the machine trade as textile engineers,…
Engineering Workshop, Astin & Barkers - MOT00295
A corner of the engineering workshop of Astin & Barker's Victoria Ironworks, Salford. 1890 - 1900.
Copper Drying Cylinder - MOT00296
The lorry is carrying a copper drying cylinder made by Geo. Whitehead & Sons at their Salford Works. This type of cylinder was used in the sizing process at firms such as Matthew Stuttard's, Warp Sizers, of Knowlwood Mill.
Lord Bros. Engineering Workshop - MOT00299
A view across the engineering workshop.
This photograph shows three Earnshaw brothers, all of whom worked in engineering since leaving school. John and Edgar were killed in the First World War. William, the eldest (shown on the extreme left), taught…
This photograph shows three Earnshaw brothers, all of whom worked in engineering since leaving school. John and Edgar were killed in the First World War. William, the eldest (shown on the extreme left), taught…