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Charles Powis, Cyclops Works
| Firmenname | Charles Powis, Cyclops Works |
| Ortssitz | London |
| Ortsteil | Millwall |
| Straße | Westferry Road 180 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse auch (1871): Millwall Pier und 60, Gracechurch Street. Firmierung auch "C. Powis & Co." |
| Quellenangaben | [Survey of London; Vol. 43+44 (1994): Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs] [Farmer's Magazine 40 (1871)] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1863 |
Charles Powis aus New Cross errichtet seine Maschinenfabrik zwischen Winkley's Wharf und Victoria Wharf. |
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Kommentar |
| Baumaschinen |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
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| Dampfkessel |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
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| Dampfmaschinen |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
1873 |
Weltaustellung Wien |
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| Krane |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
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| Pumpen |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
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| Winden |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
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| Ziegeleimaschinen |
1863 |
vmtl. ab Gründung um 1863 |
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| ZEIT | 1887 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The site between Winkley's Wharf and Victoria Wharf was not developed until c1863. when Charles Powis of New Cross set up an engineering works there on an 80year lease. His company made steam-engines, boilers, and machinery and plant for the building and engineering industries, including brick- and tile-making machines, mortar mills, cranes, hoists and pumps.
A lofty ground-floor workshop facing the river was built c1863. By the time the works closed in 1883 the riverside shop had been fitted with a gallery floor at one end, about 50ft by 45ft, supported on four cast-iron columns with trussed girders. A much longer workshop, similar in style, had been built along the south-east side of the site, together with a large smithy. The works were described at this time as 'magnificent Premises ... of splendid elevation and capacities'. The river front was not embanked until 1887, (ref. 36) when the works were taken by John Good, a cordage manufacturer, who also built a two-storey warehouse and a 100ft-tall chimney-shaft of square section on the newly constructed wharf. During Good's occupancy the premises were known as the Pier Cordage Works, but the name Cyclops was revived when Edward Le Bas & Company, later the Le Bas Tube Company, tube makers, took over the wharf c1898. Le Bas's, who in due course took over Victoria Wharf as well, made various alterations to the works, including the replacement of the hipped lantern-light roof of the riverside shop with a double-span roof carried on steel trusses. The buildings survived largely intact until the 1980s. |
| QUELLE | [Survey of London; Vol. 43+44 (1994): Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs] |
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