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A. Watts' Flouring Mills
| Name | A. Watts' Flouring Mills |
| Ortssitz | Brantford (Kanada) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Mühle |
| Anmerkungen | Gelegen am Grand River Navigation cut-off. Vermahlungsleistung: 250 barrels/Tag, hat 18 Walzenstühle; Antrieb durch vier Wasserräder (Turbinen-Bauart) mit 56" Durchmesser und einem Rad,das als "Little Giant" bezeichnet wird. |
| Quellenangaben | [Profiles of Brant County companies, banks, societies, & churches (1883) Internet] |
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| 1853 |
Das Ziegelgebäude der Mühle, das Mr. Wilkes gehört, wird durch Feuer zerstört. |
| 1856 |
Alexander Bunnell errichtet eine neue Mühle, die für etliche Jahre als "Bunnell Merchant Mills" bekannt ist. - Später kommt die Mühle in den Besitz von Watts. |
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1853 |
Brand der Mühle (Wilkes) |
1883 |
[Profiles von Brant County (1883)] |
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| ZEIT | 1883 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | This important industrial establishment is located on the old Grand River Navigation cut-off. In 1853 the brick mill building, then owned by Mr. Wilkes, was destroyed by fire; this property was on the site of the present mill owned by Mr. Watts. In 1856 Alexander Bunnell erected the mills which were known for several years as the Bunnell Merchant Mills. The property finally came into the hands of the present proprietor, who has kept pace with all the improvements in machinery and processes which modern experience has offered to the world. This mill, which does an immense flouring business, and now has a capacity for turning out 250 barrels a day, has been thoroughly overhauled and refitted; the burr stones have been replaced by rollers, or roller brakes, said to be much superior to stones, and capable of producing a much finer grade of flour. Eighteen sets of rollers have been placed in with their attendant bolts, elevators, etc. and purifiers, separators, scourers and brushing machines of most intricate and prefect designs, with a view to manufacturing the highest grade flours. Four double chests of bolts, containing sixteen reels, have been put in, the bolting cloth being finest silk. The Richmond separator removes all the straw and chess, and sends the wheat beautifully clean to the scourers and thence to a brushing machine, where it is all brushed in a most ingenious manner. It is morally impossible for any dirt or even foreign substance to follow the wheat into the rollers after passing through this course of cleaning. The middlings and bran are also purified and brushed, and come from the purifiers in a thorough state. This mill is driven by four 56-inch wheels, and a wheel known as the Little Giant, all of the turbine pattern. A. Watts' brand of flour, which he manufactures chiefly for the Maritime Provinces, is considered a sufficient guarantee of its purity, and its sale is never difficult to effect. The expense in connection with the improvements effected in the mill, and its general reconstruction within, has been about $12,000, and the name of the Brant Mills is doing more probably to advertise Brantford than any other institution in the city. |
| QUELLE | [Profiles of Brant County companies, banks, societies, & churches (1883) Internet] |
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