Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works

Nevell, Michael

Abstract

This chapter looks at the development of mechanical engineering and integrated engineering works in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. It focusses on the main buildings on the sites, including pattern shop, foundry and forge, fitting and machine shops, erecting shops, drawing and management buildings, and furnaces and power systems. Excavated examples at the Govan iron works, Thames iron works and shipbuilding company, and John Ashbury’s carriage and iron works in Manchester are used as case studies to illustrate the potential of below-ground archaeological material. Often these sites reveal details about manufacturing processes that have not survived in the documentary record.

Citation

Nevell, M. Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (274-290). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.8

• Online Publication Date: Apr 20, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 18, 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Pages: 274-290
• Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology
• Chapter Number: 17
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.8