si, 66 ½ rpm. 24-foot (7.3 m) flywheel, 46 ropes. |
|Regent||George Stott||Failsworth||1906||1958, 1966|
|Notes: Plans extant in Oldham Local Studies Centre. This was designed as a ring mill (thus lower head room was required than in a mule mill) it was 345 feet (105 m)by 130 feet (40 m) It was four storeys high. The cellar contained a warehouse, yarn cellar, waste room, cotton room, and dust room; the first floor was the card room; the second floor was the ring frame room; and the third floor was the winding, warping, and beaming room. It was powered by a marine type vertical triple-expansion engines built by Buckley & Taylor of Oldham in 1906 with 1,800 installed horsepower. The engine had a 63-inch-diameter (1,600 mm) low-pressure cylinder and was sometimes loaded to 2,000 ihp. It ran until 1958, when it was scrapped. It ran 60000 spindles. There was a 26 feet (7.9 m) flywheel, 26 ropes operated at 64 rpm. The mill was acquired by the LCC around 1930. The chimney was 210 feet (64 m), it and the boiler house were demolished in 1964. It is now owned by Salton. |
|Notes: Rock Mill, Wilshaw Lane and Oldham Road, Waterloo, was built on the site of the earlier Wilshaw Mill, making use of its octagonal chimney. Rock Mill was demolished in 1971 for the construction of an Asda store. Driven by a 1250 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine by George Saxon, 1892. It had a 16-foot (4.9 m) geared flywheel, 18" wide.|
|Notes: Driven by a 900 hp inverted vertical triple-expansion engine by J & E Wood, 1907. It had a 14/16 ft flywheel with 20 ropes, operating at 94 rpm. The original three Tetlow boilers still supplied steam at 180 psi, when in 1961 electric drives were installed,Watkins records: The Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Royd Mill, Hollinwood. Cotton Spinning. Royd, built in 1907, was one of the smaller mills, the engine built by J & E Wood of Bolton developing 900 hp. The cylinders, of 18.5, 28.5, and 43in bore by 3 ft 6 in stroke, were all fitted with Corliss-valves, which in contrast to the maker's usual practice were fitted at the opposite sides of the cylinders. It ran at 94 rpm, driving by 20 ropes from a 14 ft flywheel. The original three Tetlow boilers still supplied steam at 180 psi, when by 1961 electric drives were installed, and the engine was scrapped. The frame was unusual since there were only two columns in front, with twin feet to the single casting bed, the intermediate cylinder being supported by a massive cross casting. In 1915, it had 80,000 spindles by Asa Lees, and Howard & Bullough.|
|Royton Ring Mill||P S Stott||Royton||1908, ex.1912|
|Notes: Driven by a 1700 hp cross compound engine by Urmson & Thompson, 1908 similar to the one in Mars Mill. It had a 24 ft flywheel. In 1915 it had 64,176 ring and 6400 doubling spindles. |
|Rutland||F.W. Dixon & Son||Linney Lane, Shaw and Crompton||1907||1993||86|
|Notes: and run by Rutland Mill Ltd. It was driven by a 1700 hp cross compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, built in 1908, but altered in 1913. It had a 26 ft flywheel with 35 ropes operating at 67 rpm then 68 rpm. In 1950, in LCC ownership it had both 96,000 ring and 20,000 mule spindles. By 1964, it was in the Courtaulds Group. In the late 1980s, as Courtaulds moved operations to other parts of the world, the mill was bought by Littlewoods. Under the Littlewoods name it was run as warehousing for a short time before it was demolished and replaced by a new automated storage warehouse.|
|Notes: It was driven by a 1500 hp cross compound engine by Daniel Adamson built in 1907. It had a 24 ft flywheel with 36 ropes which operated at 65 ½ rpm. New Cylinders by George Saxon, were fitted in 1915.|
|Notes: Bridge Street, 75,000 spindles in 1887. In 87,000 spindles, 348/388 twist, 408/528 weft. It was originally driven by 1000 hp twin tandem compound engine by Goodfellow and Matthews built in 1868. It had a 30 ft flywheel with 27 ropes that operated at 55 rpm. It was rebuilt in 1925(?) by Scott & Hodgson as a 1600 hp engine.|
|Notes: It was driven by a 1500 hp vertical three-cylinder compound engine by G