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A History of the County of Oxford
… supplemented by gas engines and (at Mount Mills) by an oil engine, and from 1934 Witney Mill was powered by electricity …
A History of the County of Oxford
… workers, and others including a cow-keeper and a traction-engine driver. Occupants of Buswells Row had similar jobs, and in … a metal turner, a tailor, a fellmonger's manager, and an engineer's storekeeper; 133 rents in 1910 were 4 s. 6 d. a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… besides regular payments for maintenance of a fire-engine. 84 The vestry elected collectors of the poor for the … the 1920s employing a manager and an electrical and water engineer. 293 In 191920 supply was extended to most of the … 24 'new buckets'. 306 The town presumably had a fire engine by 1772, when a lease of the bailiffs' house mentioned …
A History of the County of Essex
… chairman retained limited powers. 78 PUBLIC SERVICES. An engine which may have been a parish fire engine attended a fire in 1774. 79 In 1904 the urban district …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the local mining industry: c. 1730 an atmospheric pumping engine was installed at Wombridge, and by the time of his … Richard Hartshorne had installed a Coalbrookdale pumping engine at Wombridge c. 1730, it was only in the late 18th and … known as the Wombridge Co., owned the 'Wombridge water engine', and William Reynolds the 'Bank water engine' at …