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3 unusual facts about Boulton's Siding


Boulton's Siding

In the 1860s, established railway companies were replacing their small 2-2-0 and 0-4-0 steam locomotives with larger, more modern machines.

This was, essentially, a horizontal predecessor of the vertical water-tube boilers later used in Sentinel Steam Waggons.

Isaac Watt Boulton

Isaac Watt Boulton (1823–1899) was a British engineer and founder of the locomotive-hire business known as Boulton's Siding.


Adam Eckfeldt

In 1833, Peale was sent on a tour of European mints and came home with ideas for new machines and innovations, including the introduction of steam power, used at Britain's Royal Mint since 1810 on equipment purchased from the firm of Boulton & Watt.

Agnes Boulton

Agnes Boulton (September 19, 1893 – November 25, 1968) was a successful pulp fiction writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

In 1957, it was decided to rename the separate Suffolk Street building and in November 1957, it became the Matthew Boulton Technical College, named after Matthew Boulton, a prominent local industrialist of the Industrial Revolution.

Boulton

Isaac Watt Boulton (1823—1899), owned a locomotive-hire business known as Boulton's Siding

Boulton and Watt, partnership between Matthew Boulton and James Watt

Boulton Carbon Company

In 1886, former Brush Electric Company Superintendent/General Manager Washington H. Lawrence led a group of investors (including Myron T. Herrick, James Parmelee and Webb Hayes) in buying a controlling interest in the Boulton Carbon Company.

Boulton Paul P.92

The first flight, at Heston Aerodrome, was made by Boulton Paul's chief test pilot Flight Lieutenant Cecil Feather.

Boulton Paul Sidestrand

Boulton & Paul Ltd of Norwich built a series of twin-engined biplanes starting with the Bourges of 1918, which although not ordered into production, had demonstrated excellent performance and manoeuvrability, followed by the all-metal Bolton of 1922 and the smaller Bugle of 1923.

G. D'Arcy Boulton

The second son of Henry Boulton (1732–1788) J.P., of Moulton, Lincolnshire, by his third wife, Mary (1734–1779), the daughter of D'Arcy Preston of Askham Bryan Hall, Yorkshire.

Isaac Watt Boulton

In 1841 I. W. Boulton began an apprenticeship with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway under Richard Peacock.

Mariposa Township, Ontario

For the Canada Company secured large concessions here; George Strange Boulton of Port Hope, the Family Compact member for Durham, arranged for a rich grant to himself.

Pumphouse

The British label Zoom Club released the collection of songs in 1998 under the name Tokyo Blade, after the members of Pumphouse Marsh, Riggs and Angel had joined Andy Boulton and John Wiggins to record Burning Down Paradise in 1995 and to tour in Europe as Tokyo Blade.

Simon Boulton

Simon Joseph Boulton is a an award-winning British scientist who has made major contributions to the understanding of DNA repair and the treatment of cancer resulting from DNA damage.

The Sins of the Cities of the Plain

Later on Jack spends the night at Boulton and Park's rooms in Eaton Square and the next day has breakfast with them "all dressed as ladies".


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