INDUSTRIES 



covering a floor space of 410,1 19 super, ft., and 

 being situated at various points of the town, and 

 known as the Basford, Church, Deering, Mos- 

 cow, and Raleigh Works. The boilers at the 

 Basford and Deering Works are contained in 

 spacious and well-lighted boiler houses, which 

 contain three steel Lancashire boilers on brickwork 

 seatings, each 28 ft. long, 7 ft. in diameter, 

 working at a steam pressure of I44.1b. to the 

 square inch, one having been made by Daniel 

 Adamson & Co. of Dukinfield, and the other by 

 Edwin Danks & Co. of Oldbury, Birmingham, 

 both mounted with Cowburn dead-weight 

 safety-valves, Hopkinson's high and low water 

 alarms, Hodgkiss circulators, and Green's econo- 

 mizers. Jardine's patent smoke consumers are 

 fitted in the flues, whilst water from wells on 

 i he premises is constantly supplied to the boilers 

 by pumps, the power derived from the latter being 

 sufficient to drive the engines in the power-house. 

 The total power of the engines driving Jardine's 

 various works is 2,110 h.p. The Marshall's 

 installation at the Deering Works consists of 

 two Winans and Robinson 35o-h.p., one 8o-h.p., 

 and two combined sets of engines and dynamos, 

 the current conveyed to twenty-four motors, 

 forty-six arc and 660 incandescent lamps in use 

 throughout the works. The machines produced 

 comprise go-through, Mechlin, levers, curtain, 

 plain net, and Sival, the operatives being concerned 

 with such departments of manufacture as making, 

 straightening, casting, and squaring, the numerous 

 processes which are connected with the carriage. 

 Amongst the interesting equipments of this 

 remarkable establishment is a bar-planer, which 

 is said to be the biggest and fastest in the world. 

 This machine, built specially for Jardine's, is 

 capable of planing four lace-machine bars at a 

 time, its speed being looft. per minute, cutting 

 both ways. The table travels about 100 miles 

 during one of the factory's full working weeks. 

 The length of the table is 45 ft., the length of 

 the bed being 84 ft., and the weight 26 tons. 

 The planer is driven by a jo-h.p. electric motor. 



Delicate electrical apparatus is employed to test 

 the temper of the needles, whilst the most 

 patient and perfected skill is brought to bear, in 

 a succession of operations, upon the preparation 

 of the carriages in which the bobbins are to be 

 carried on the finished machine. 



Only the briefest allusion can be made to the 

 numerous institutions which exist for the benefit 

 of the employees of this firm, but we may 

 remark that opportunities are afforded to all 

 operatives of attending the technical evening 

 classes at the University College, where several 

 of Jardine's employees have secured notable 

 successes. 3 



In addition to lace machines, the modern 

 machine-building industry of Nottingham is 

 concerned with the production of hosiery 

 machines, steam engines, boilers, gas engines, 

 sanitary and laundry machines, sugar-refining 

 and printing, and Burrough's adding machines. 



The motor industry is represented by the 

 Humber and Raleigh Companies, cycles being 

 also built in the town. 



The necessities of the hosiery trade have given 

 rise to numerous hosiery machinists' establish- 

 ments in Nottinghamshire, those of Messrs. Moses 

 Mellor & Sons, Ltd., Messrs. Kiddier Bros. 

 (The Hosiery Machine Building Company), 

 Messrs. G. Blackburn & Sons, Charles Dean, 

 B. Hague & Co., Messrs. G. Hopewell & Son, of 

 Basford, in addition to hosiery finishing machinery, 

 being makers of improved boards for shaping 

 hosiery, and N. Marshall of Moorgate Street 

 being a maker of all kinds of wheels for circular 

 hosiery machinery. 



At the moment of writing, the municipality 

 of Victoria, British Columbia, have placed with 

 the Stanton Works, Ltd., of Nottingham, the 

 contract for the delivery of 300,000 tons of iron 

 piping required in connexion with the new water, 

 gas, and other public improvement schemes in 

 that city, the contract in question being stated to 

 rank as the most valuable individual order of a 

 similar character ever placed by Canada. 4 



BELL-FOUNDING 



The bell-founder's art was practised at an early 

 date at Nottingham, Mr. Phillimore being of 

 opinion that the William Brasyer de Notting- 

 ham, made a freeman of Norwich in 1376, was 

 identical with William de Norwyco, who cast 

 bells still in use, and the ancestor of the Brasier 

 family of Norwich, afterwards found as bell- 

 founders in that city. It may be assumed, adds 

 this authority, that Brasyer, having learned his 

 art in Nottingham, possibly from some monastic 

 craftsman, afterwards migrated to Norfolk. 1 



* We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Ernest 

 Jardine, J.P., for the above information. 



Our knowledge of the early bell-founders of the 

 county is mainly derived from ancient records of 

 their frequent appearances as litigants. Richard 

 Redeswell, for example, comes before us for the 

 first time in 1433, when he brought an action 

 against John Barley of Kimberley, who came 

 with force and arms, to wit, a club, and trod down 

 a close belonging to the said Richard with two 

 cart-loads of sea-coal, so that Redeswell was not 

 able to make bells there. Barley, however 

 denied that Redeswell had any cause for com- 



4 Daily Telegraph, ~j July 1908. 

 1 Phillimore, Old Notts. 107. 



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