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C. L. Hett of the Turbine Foundry / Ancholme Foundry, Brigg, Lincolnshire
1872 Company formed by Charles Louis Hett when he took over the Ancholme Foundry from William Hart
1876 Bid for a boiler at Ely[1]
1882 Supplied a centrifugal pump to East Butterwick Pumping Station near Gainsborough.[2]
1886 Produced a centrifugal pump and single cylinder vertical steam engine for circulating water on the Greek Government’s ship Eldorado. [3]
1891 Designed a turbine governor with very simple action[4]
1894 Hett's Pelton Wheel for driving a blowing engine at a mine
1895 C L Hett taken over by Gilbert Gilkes of Kendal (see Gilbert Gilkes and Co)
1896 Charles Hett retired from the business
1912 Hett-designed 'Trent' turbine installed at Cressbrook Mill, Derbyshire[5]
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