Strong Close Ironworks, Keighley
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 21 Apr 2007
This was one of several factories operated by Messrs Prince Smith, later Prince Smith Stells. They were primarily textile machinery manufacturers and this ironworks was built on a greenfield site in about 1912. The view shows two buildings that look like engine houses side by side. My contact Geoff Shackleton tells me that the company bought a horizontal tandem compound engine from Cole, Marchent and Morley of Bradford in 1910 for Strong Close Ironworks. In 1924 the same maker supplied a uniflow engine with a 31" x 30" cylinder driving a 500 kW, 230 V DC generator. It is not stated whether the later engine replaced the earlier one or supplemented it. I suspect the latter.
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