Company timeline: 1870s
Hydraulics, railway carriages, and steamboats
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Date | Event | Significance | Source |
1871 | Ralph Hart Tweddell invents the portable hydraulic riveter and approaches Fielding and Platt to manufacture it. The introduction of hydraulics to the company | Product news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
18/03/1871 | An iron screw steamer built by F & P was removed on wheels to the docks and lifted into the water by a large crane (for use of officials of the Glos & Berkeley canal). | Product news | Glos. Journal. Done’s Index E1100 |
13/05/1871 | Launch of an iron steam dredger (to be used in improvement and extension of docks at Lydney. | Product news | Glos. Journal. Done’s Index E1102 |
1873-1875 | Conversion of 4 Great Western Railway broad gauge engines for stationary colliery duties. The engines were called Castor, Erebus, Prosperpine, and Tiger. | Product news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1873-1892 | 23 inventions patented | Product news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1874 | Fielding and Platt build a small steam boat called the S. S. Sabrina | Product news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1874 | Death of Samuel Fielding | People news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1874 | Manufacture of 900 ton flanging press | Product news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1876 | Award received from international exhibition in Philadelphia | Company news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
12/02/1876 | Article on Fielding & Platt’s new venture into the field of boiler-making. | Product news | Glos. Journal. Done’s Index D890 |
18/03/1876 | F & P wins Gold & Silver medals at Manchester for patent hydraulic rivetting machine. | Product news | Glos. Journal. Done’s Index D891 |
1878 | Award received from international exhibition in Paris. | Company news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1878 | Award received from international exhibition in London. | Company news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
1878 | Hydraulic lifts supplied by Fielding & Platt installed in Blackpool Tower. | Company news | D5926/1/1 (Centenary Book) |
28/09/1878 | Grand Prix (highest honour) for F& P’s patent hydraulic rivetting machine, at Paris exhibition. | Company news | Glos. Journal. Done’s Index D914 |
23/11/1878 | Some interest in Fielding & Platt building an iron chimney ‘from the top’, in Kent. | Product news | Glos. Journal. Done’s Index D916 |
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