Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,066 pages of information and 246,706 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Breitfeld, Danek and Co

From Graces Guide
February 1888.

of Karolinenthal Works, Prague, with branch works at Aussig, Schlan, and Blansko.

c.1910 Makers of steam engines, steam and water turbines, mining equipment, gas engines, structural iron and steel work, presses, railway equipment, process plant including sugar refining equipment. [1]

1879 Pumping engines and boilers for Vienna Auxiliary Water Works, Pottschach, described and illustrated in Engineering.[2]

1888 Portable electric light plant described in 'Engineering'.

1891-1904 Supplied four steam pumping engines to provide hydraulic power for cranes, etc, in the old port of Trieste. The 150 IHP engines were built to the design of W. G. Armstrong and Co. The engines are conserved in their original building, which is now a museum.[3]. See Museum webpage here.

1910 Steam turbine on display at Vienna Technical Museum. Made by Maschinenbau A.G., formerly Breitfeld, Danek & Co.

1927 Merged with Českomoravská-Kolben (founded 1896) to form ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk).[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] US Special Agents' Series, Issues 33-40: Machine Tool Trade in Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Russia and Netherlands, 1910
  2. https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Special:MemberUsers?file=6/6a/Eg18791205.pdf] Engineering 5 Dec 1879
  3. I.S.S.E.S. Bulletin, Vol 41, No. 2, Summer 2022: Hydraulic Pumping Station, Old Port, Trieste
  4. [2] Wikipedia entry for CKD