PART 1 A Tandem Compound Mill Engine

Introduction This series of articles will describe the building of a model of a tandem compound, condensing mill engine, typical of those that drove textile mills in Britain and around the world up to the 1960s. For the author this provided both a challenge to improve his workshop skills and a link back to his family origins in Burnley, Lancashire. One side of the family, there, were road builders (‘Paviors and Contractors’ in a Burnley directory of the early 20th Century), the others were brush manufacturers, and all of them were people who made things. The brush making business produced every sort of brush from ladies’ hairbrushes to rotary brooms for road sweeping machines but to a large extent they were dependant on the cotton industry for their survival. The…

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Model Engineer (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 4750

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