Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1781 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Darlington Forge Company Limited
Covering Dates: 1914
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Darlington Forge Company Limited (Ref: D/X 1781)Photograph album (Ref: D/X 1781)Ref: D/X 1781/1
Commemorative album from the visit of the Institution of Naval Architects, the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland and the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders to the Darlington Forge Company Limited, 9 July 1914
Contains black and white images of the forge and its products
(1 volume, printed)
Ref: D/X 1781/1(1)Steel building covering hydraulic press
Ref: D/X 1781/1(2)Hydraulic presses
Ref: D/X 1781/1(3)Framesmiths' shop
Ref: D/X 1781/1(4)Power station
Ref: D/X 1781/1(5)Forged steel lower part of sternframe for S.S. La Gascoyne (Compagnie General Transatlantique)
Ref: D/X 1781/1(6)Cast steel stem for H.M.S. Prince of Wales
Ref: D/X 1781/1(7)Forged steel gun jacket, weighing 56 tons, for 15" naval gun
Ref: D/X 1781/1(8)Mild steel sternframe and brackets for 25-knot Cunard turbine mail boats Mauretania, Lusitania and Aquitania
Ref: D/X 1781/1(9)Hydraulic pressed steel shaft for H.M. first-class cruiser Roxburgh
Ref: D/X 1781/1(10)Group of cast-steel roll housings, mill pinions, couplings, etc. Forged-steel rolls
Ref: D/X 1781/1(11)Group of crankshafts for P & O first-class mail boat
Ref: D/X 1781/1(12)Cast steel mooring anchors, for Admiralty harbour extension (Gibraltar)
Ref: D/X 1781/1(13)12-ton double-acting steam hammer
Ref: D/X 1781/1(14)Cast steel sternframe - S.S. Heighington, repaired after ship ran aground
Ref: D/X 1781/1(15)Hollow forged steel drum
Ref: D/X 1781/1(16)Forged steel built-up rudder
Ref: D/X 1781/1(17)Cast steel mill gearing
Ref: D/X 1781/1(18)Special train load of cast steel sternframes, propeller brackets and rudder
Ref: D/X 1781/1(19)Forged ingot steel turbine ribbed rotor drum, for H.M. first-class battleship Ajax
Ref: D/X 1781/1(20)Forged steel turbine rotor wheel, for H.M. first-class battleship Ajax
Ref: D/X 1781/1(21)Steel crankshaft, 22" diameter, in Patent Duplex lathe
Ref: D/X 1781/1(22)Mild steel sternframe, White Star liners Olympic and Brittanic
Ref: D/X 1781/1(23)Mild steel sternframe for H.M.S. Resolution
Ref: D/X 1781/1(24)Cast steel rudder, White Star liners Olympic and Brittanic
Ref: D/X 1781/1(25)Cast steel forward shaft brackets, White Star liners Olympic and Britannic
Ref: D/X 1781/1(26)Cast steel after shaft brackets, White Star liners Olympic and Britannic
Ref: D/X 1781/1(27)Mild steel sternframe, R.M.S. Mauretania, Lusitania and Aquitania, as loaded for conveyance from makers' works to port of shipment to builders' yard
Ref: D/X 1781/1(28)Hydraulic pressed steel plate roll
Ref: D/X 1781/1(29)Forged ingot steel rotor rings for U.S.A. battleship
Ref: D/X 1781/1(30)Steel crankshaft
Ref: D/X 1781/1(31)Hollow forged steel tubes for turbine engines
Ref: D/X 1781/1(32)Special forged steel rotor drum
Ref: D/X 1781/1(33)Hydraulic pressed steel propeller shaft fitted with gunmetal liner