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East Ferry Road Engineering Works Company Limited
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The East Ferry Road Engineering Works was situated in Millwall, London and dates from 1874 when it was incorporated as a Limited Company. The connection with Penarth Dock is for the supply of new coal tips (see Volume 6 Chapter 14) Reconstruction of Three Coal Tips - 1912.
The image, left, [015] [016] dates from January 1888 and shows that the company were specialist hydraulic engineers.
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In 1874 the dock company granted a sub-lease of a large parcel, between East Ferry Road and the railway, to the East Ferry Road Engineering Works Company Ltd, which was incorporated in that year, with Charles Henry Parkes, the Millwall Dock Company's chairman, as its chairman, and his son, Charles Reginald Parkes, as its managing director.
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The engineering company, which was indeed virtually a subsidiary of the dock company, had its origins in Duckham's Weighing Machine Company, which had been set up in 1872 by Frederic Eliot Duckham, engineer to the dock company, to manufacture a weighing machine that he had invented three years earlier for use at the Millwall Docks sheer-legs.
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The founding shareholders were virtually all Millwall Dock Company directors and staff. Duckham was also instrumental in the establishment of the Engineering Works Company and the two companies shared the East Ferry Road site until the weighing-machine company was wound up in 1881. The engineering company had a privileged position as a supplier of machinery to the Millwall Dock Company, which led to contracts from other dock and railway companies.
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Work for the dock company, all to Duckham's specifications, included traveling hydraulic quay cranes, grain hoppers and, from 1890, some of the world's earliest pneumatic grain-elevating machinery. It continued to supply the PLA with pneumatic elevators in the 1920s and cranes until 1939. [232]
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In January 1911 the National Archive holds the contract between East Ferry Road Engineering Works Co Ltd and CRC for construction of gas power driven hydraulic pumps and pressure accumulator at Bute Docks. [142] The image left is an advert for Rigg's Patent Coal Tippers dating from 1909. [000] [002] |
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above and below - An advertisement for the East Ferry Engineering Works Co., Ltd. featuring the coal tips at Penarth Dock which appeared in an American publication being a supplement to 'Cassier's Engineering Monthly' - 'Conveying ; an illustrated record of the progress of mechanical handling of materials in all its branches' - July 1918 edition. [495] [499] |
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'Hydraulic Coal Hoists as recently supplied to the Taff Vale Railway Co., Penarth Dock. Height, 41 feet above Quay level ; capacity 23 tons to a height of 38 feet. The Photograph shows one of three Hoists during its erection.' [495] [499] |
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| 1881 - An advertisement published within the 'Engineering' magazine for the East Ferry Road Engineering Works Company Limited of Millwall, London, E. - Engineering [627] [499] 10th April 1891. |
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