Milling journals of the past. Messrs. Woodhouse & Mitchell Ltd. Engineers and Millwrights of Brighouse
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2023 April |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | Many of the articles on roller mills I have written over the past years have included layouts of the mill, sometimes with a brief mention of their motive power. An article in The Miller of 6 December 1909 provided some interesting background to one of the companies that built some of the engines that drove mills of that time. Representatives of that journal enjoyed a trip across the Pennines to Brighouse near Halifax in Yorkshire. They visited the works of Woodhouse and Mitchell and published their impressions. The firm started out in 1867 when four clever and enterprising employees of an engine building company decided to set up on their own account. Their names were: Joseph Wood, John Baldwin, Samuel Mitchell, and Richard Woodhouse. They secured a small workshop at Brighouse, hiring power from their next-door neighbours, and started out on what was going to prove to be a successful career as engine builders. Richard Woodhouse was the owner of the firm at the time of the article in 1909. He was a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and of the society of Arts as well as a Justice of the Peace for Brighouse and Churchwarden of St. James’ Church...Read more. |
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