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  • Thumbnail for Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company
    Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, originally called The Bridgewater Foundry, specialised in the production of heavy machine tools and locomotives. It was located...
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    for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company manufacturers of machine tools. He retired at the age of...
    20 KB (2,546 words) - 22:56, 23 January 2024
  • Naismith (redirect from Nasmyth)
    membrane Naismith, Montana Nasmyth (crater) on the Moon McClure Naismith, Scottish commercial solicitors Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company (1836–1850), production...
    4 KB (444 words) - 15:00, 24 March 2024
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    GWR Firefly Class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
    Built by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company. The name is that of a Greek mythological warrior. See Achilles. Actaeon 1841–1868. Built by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company...
    14 KB (1,794 words) - 17:48, 1 April 2024
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    and reapers. Bicycles were mass-produced beginning in the 1880s. The Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company's Bridgewater Foundry, which began operation in 1836, was...
    33 KB (3,613 words) - 09:08, 1 June 2024
  • Mammoth 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...
    6 KB (847 words) - 19:54, 3 April 2018
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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...
    9 KB (957 words) - 19:58, 16 February 2023
  • Metro-Cammell Metropolitan-Vickers Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company North British Locomotive Company Pressed Steel Company...
    32 KB (3,333 words) - 11:54, 27 March 2024
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    These became known as Lowell Mills and the Waltham-Lowell system. The Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company's Bridgewater Foundry, which began operation in 1836, was...
    22 KB (2,640 words) - 20:24, 29 March 2024
  • Metropolitan-Vickers Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Motor Rail Muir-Hill Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company Neilson & Company – became Neilson Reid & Company in 1898;...
    53 KB (4,276 words) - 19:04, 22 May 2024
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    Galloway & Sons. When this company failed, he joined the business of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company in their factory at Patricroft, Manchester, on the banks...
    6 KB (663 words) - 09:33, 8 May 2023
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    GWR Hercules Class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
    Railway. They were its first 0-6-0 locomotives, being built in 1842 by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company stemming from the company's need for goods locomotives...
    3 KB (248 words) - 13:40, 9 February 2024
  • had been the main site of machine tool and locomotive manufacturer Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company, founded in 1836. It had stopped manufacturing locomotives...
    4 KB (464 words) - 00:24, 7 May 2024
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    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...
    21 KB (2,414 words) - 19:23, 5 May 2024
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    2-2-2 T Richardson & Sons 1847 157 - 2-2-2 Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company 1847 161 - 2-2-2 Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company 1847 162 - 2-4-0 R & W Hawthorn...
    80 KB (11,274 words) - 10:24, 9 January 2024
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    Builder Works no. Date built Railway Name/no. Notes Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company 53 1846 South Eastern Railway 92 LNWR Crewe Works ? 1847 London and North...
    22 KB (1,447 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2024
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    class 5 ft 0 in 17 in × 24 in 1889 1892 18 3541 – 3560 Fury A51 0-6-0 Nasmyth, Gaskell & Co 5 ft 0 in 15 in × 18 in 1842 1871 4 Hercules, Sampson, Goliah...
    20 KB (451 words) - 11:46, 1 April 2024
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    Revolution. Industrial cranes were used to handle heavy machinery at the Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company (Bridgewater foundry) in the late 1830s. Hydraulic powered...
    117 KB (13,898 words) - 09:02, 8 April 2024
  • 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...
    10 KB (972 words) - 00:47, 31 March 2024
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    Cork, Republic of Ireland. B. Hick and Sons Rothwell and Company Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway Midland...
    8 KB (805 words) - 12:58, 15 April 2024
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