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 167,067 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.

F. Wannieck

From Graces Guide
1877. Horizontal engine with Wannieck and Koppner's valve gear.

Friedrich Wannieck, Engineer of Brunn (Brno, Czech Republic)

1865 Friedrich Wannieck and Philip Jellinek established an engineering company in Brno. Jellinek left and Wannieck became the sole owner. In 1890 a limited partnership was established with Sulzer Brothers. From 1896 Sulzer steam engines were built in Wannieck's factory, and mostly exported to Austria-Hungary and Germany. c.1897 Wannieck left the business, which was then run by a Mr Kliment. In 1902 there was a merger between the works at Vankovka and the First Brno’s Machine factory (PBS). Manufacture of steam turbines started under licence from Parsons. The Vankovka factory was used for the production of various engineering products, culminating with Zetor in 1989. Some of the buildings now house the Galerie Vankovka.[1]

c.1900 Supplied 1500 HP triple expansion steam engines driving generators at the Leopoldstadt Power Station, Vienna.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1]Converted Factories on Waymarking.com - Galerie Vankovka - Brno, Czech Republic. This link provides much more information than that summarised above
  2. Zeitschrift Des Vereines Deutsche Ingenieure Vol XXXXIV, 2 June 1900