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The company introduced the highly efficient [[George Henry Corliss|Corliss]] [[Corliss steam engine|valve gear]] into the United Kingdom from the United States in about 1864 and was closely identified with it thereafter;[{{cite web|title=Robert Lüthy|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Robert_Luthy|website=Grace's Guide|publisher=Institution of Mechanical Engineers|access-date=4 December 2024|date=1884}}] An early horizontal Corliss type built in 1866, arrived in Australia the following year for [[Bells Creek (Blacktown, New South Wales)|Bell's Creek]] [[gold mine]], [[Araluen, New South Wales|Araluan]], [[New South Wales]]; the engine is now housed at [[Goulburn Pumping Station|Goulburn Historic Waterworks Museum]].[{{cite web |title=Historic Waterworks Museum |url=http://goulburnwaterworks.com.au/history/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013215914/http://goulburnwaterworks.com.au/history/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-10-13 |website=Goulburn Historic Waterworks Museum |publisher=Goulburn Waterworks Historic Museum |access-date=12 September 2024 |date=2014}}] A 50 hp Inglis and Spencer improved Corliss girder bed engine built in 1873 (No. 303), used to power Gamble's [[lace]] factory, [[Nottingham]] and an 1879 (No. 519), 120 hp non-condensing Corliss engine with Inglis and Spencer patent double clip trip gear are held at [[Forncett Industrial Steam Museum]][{{cite web |title=Hick, Hargreaves and Co |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im20110717Fcett-Hick3.jpg |website=Grace's Guide |publisher=Grace's Guide |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=29 July 2011}}][{{cite web |last1=Dace |first1=Ashley |title=TM1694 : Hick Hargreaves No 303 Steam Engine |url=http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1991678 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417145937/http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1991678 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-04-17 |website=Geograph |access-date=12 September 2024 |date=2 August 2010}}] and Gurteen's textile manufactorary and museum,[{{cite journal |last1=Ford |first1=Roger |editor1-last=Stanier |editor1-first=Dr Peter |title=Cambridge Conference 2001 |journal=Industrial Archaeology News |date=Winter 2001 |issue=119 |page=4 |url=https://industrial-archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AIA-News-119-Winter-2001.pdf |access-date=20 April 2026 |publisher=Association for Industrial Archaeology}}][{{cite web |title=Haverhill Town Council Meeting |url=https://haverhill-tc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/Full-Council-Minutes-2013-03-26.pdf |website=Haverhill Town Council |publisher=Pro Bono Publico |access-date=20 April 2026 |page=57 |date=26 March 2013}}] Haverhill, Suffolk.[{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Chris |title=TL6745 : Chauntry Mills, steam engine |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1876301 |website=Geograph |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=1983}}][{{cite journal |last1=Bowden |first1=Colin |editor1-last=Stanier |editor1-first=Dr Peter |title=Cambridge Conference 2001 |journal=Industrial Archaeology News |date=Winter 2001 |issue=119 |page=6 |url=https://industrial-archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AIA-News-119-Winter-2001.pdf |access-date=20 April 2026 |publisher=Association for Industrial Archaeology}}][{{cite web |last1=Dace |first1=Ashley |title=TL6745 : Caroline - Hick, Hargreaves & Co of Bolton (1879) |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3568951 |website=Geograph |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=2013}}] |
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The company introduced the highly efficient [[George Henry Corliss|Corliss]] [[Corliss steam engine|valve gear]] into the United Kingdom from the United States in about 1864 and was closely identified with it thereafter;[{{cite web|title=Robert Lüthy|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Robert_Luthy|website=Grace's Guide|publisher=Institution of Mechanical Engineers|access-date=4 December 2024|date=1884}}] An early horizontal Corliss type built in 1866, arrived in Australia the following year for [[Bells Creek (Blacktown, New South Wales)|Bell's Creek]] [[gold mine]], [[Araluen, New South Wales|Araluan]], [[New South Wales]]; the engine is now housed at [[Goulburn Pumping Station|Goulburn Historic Waterworks Museum]].[{{cite web |title=Historic Waterworks Museum |url=http://goulburnwaterworks.com.au/history/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013215914/http://goulburnwaterworks.com.au/history/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-10-13 |website=Goulburn Historic Waterworks Museum |publisher=Goulburn Waterworks Historic Museum |access-date=12 September 2024 |date=2014}}] A 50 hp Inglis and Spencer improved Corliss girder bed engine built in 1873 (No. 303), used to power Gamble's [[lace]] factory, [[Nottingham]] and an 1879 (No. 519), 120 hp non-condensing Corliss engine with Inglis and Spencer patent double clip trip gear are held at [[Forncett Industrial Steam Museum]][{{cite web |title=Hick, Hargreaves and Co |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im20110717Fcett-Hick3.jpg |website=Grace's Guide |publisher=Grace's Guide |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=29 July 2011}}][{{cite web |last1=Dace |first1=Ashley |title=TM1694 : Hick Hargreaves No 303 Steam Engine |url=http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1991678 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417145937/http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1991678 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-04-17 |website=Geograph |access-date=12 September 2024 |date=2 August 2010}}] and Gurteen's textile manufactorary and museum,[{{cite journal |last1=Ford |first1=Roger |editor1-last=Stanier |editor1-first=Dr Peter |title=Cambridge Conference 2001 |journal=Industrial Archaeology News |date=Winter 2001 |issue=119 |page=4 |url=https://industrial-archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AIA-News-119-Winter-2001.pdf |access-date=20 April 2026 |publisher=Association for Industrial Archaeology}}][{{cite web |title=Haverhill Town Council Meeting |url=https://haverhill-tc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/Full-Council-Minutes-2013-03-26.pdf |website=Haverhill Town Council |publisher=Pro Bono Publico |access-date=20 April 2026 |page=57 |date=26 March 2013}}] Haverhill, Suffolk.[{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Chris |title=TL6745 : Chauntry Mills, steam engine |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1876301 |website=Geograph |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=1983}}][{{cite journal |last1=Bowden |first1=Colin |editor1-last=Stanier |editor1-first=Dr Peter |title=Cambridge Conference 2001 |journal=Industrial Archaeology News |date=Winter 2001 |issue=119 |page=6 |url=https://industrial-archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AIA-News-119-Winter-2001.pdf |access-date=20 April 2026 |publisher=Association for Industrial Archaeology}}][{{cite web |last1=Dace |first1=Ashley |title=TL6745 : Caroline - Hick, Hargreaves & Co of Bolton (1879) |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3568951 |website=Geograph |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=2013}}] |
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About 1881 Hick, Hargreaves received orders for two Corliss engines of 3000 hp, the largest [[cotton mill]] engines in the world.[{{cite journal|title=One Thousand Horse-Power Corliss Engine.|journal=Scientific American Supplement|date=25 June 1881|volume=XI|issue=286|url=http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/scientific-american/sup1/One-Thousand-Horse-Power-Corliss-Engine.html|access-date=20 September 2016|quote=and they have an order for a pair of horizontal compound Corliss engines intended to indicate 3,000 horse-power. These engines will be the largest cotton mill engines in the world.|archive-date=11 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011224530/http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/scientific-american/sup1/One-Thousand-Horse-Power-Corliss-Engine.html|url-status=live}}] Hargreaves and Inglis trip gear was first applied to a large single cylinder 1800 hp Corliss engine at [[Eagley Mills#No 2 Mill (Valley Mill)|Eagley Mills]] near Bolton and the company received a Gold Medal for its products at the 1885 [[International Inventions Exhibition]].[{{cite journal|title=Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Co.'s Horizontal Engine.|journal=The Engineer|date=22 January 1886|page=61}}] An 1886 Hick, Hargreaves and Co. inverted, vertical single cylinder Corliss engine with Inglis and Spencer trip gear, used to run Ford Ayrton and Co.'s spinning mill, [[Bentham, North Yorkshire|Bentham]] until 1966 is preserved under glass at Bolton Town Centre.[{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Chris |title=SD7109 : Preserved steam engine, Bolton |url=http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/990716 |website=Geograph |access-date=4 December 2022|date=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025070756/http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/990716 |archive-date=25 October 2012 }}][{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Chris |title=Textile Mill Engines |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/textile_mill_engines_9920 |website=Geograph |access-date=4 December 2022 |date=]1 July 2009}} |
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About 1881 Hick, Hargreaves received orders for two Corliss engines of 3000 hp, the largest [[cotton mill]] engines in the world.[{{cite journal|title=One Thousand Horse-Power Corliss Engine.|journal=Scientific American Supplement|date=25 June 1881|volume=XI|issue=286|url=http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/scientific-american/sup1/One-Thousand-Horse-Power-Corliss-Engine.html|access-date=20 September 2016|quote=and they have an order for a pair of horizontal compound Corliss engines intended to indicate 3,000 horse-power. These engines will be the largest cotton mill engines in the world.|archive-date=11 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011224530/http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/scientific-american/sup1/One-Thousand-Horse-Power-Corliss-Engine.html|url-status=live}}] Hargreaves and Inglis trip gear was first applied to a large single cylinder 1800 hp Corliss engine at [[Eagley Mills#No 2 Mill (Valley Mill)|Eagley Mills]] near Bolton and the company received a Gold Medal for its products at the 1885 [[International Inventions Exhibition]].[{{cite journal|title=Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Co.'s Horizontal Engine.|journal=The Engineer|date=22 January 1886|page=61}}] An 1886 Hick, Hargreaves and Co. inverted, vertical single cylinder Corliss engine with Inglis and Spencer trip gear, used to run Ford Ayrton and Co.'s spinning mill, [[Bentham, North Yorkshire|Bentham]] until 1966 is preserved under glass at Bolton Town Centre.[{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Chris |title=SD7109 : Preserved steam engine, Bolton |url=http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/990716 |website=Geograph |access-date=4 December 2022|date=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025070756/http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/990716 |archive-date=25 October 2012 }}][{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Chris |title=Textile Mill Engines |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/textile_mill_engines_9920 |website=Geograph |access-date=4 December 2022 |date=2009}}] |
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Lüthy was appointed superintendent of hydraulic apparatus in 1870, about August 1883 he went on business to Australia connected with the [[Maritime transport|shipping]] of [[Frozen food|frozen meat]] and to inspect machinery for a large [[freezing]] establishment, but died suddenly on 3 July 1884, the day after he returned home.[{{cite book|last1=Spike|first1=Archibald|title=Bibliographia Boltonensis: being a bibliography, with biographical details of Bolton authors, and the books written by them from 1550 to 1912; books about Bolton; and those printed and published in the town from 1785 to date|date=1913|publisher=Manchester: The University Press|pages=82, 101|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029566019#page/n103/mode/2up|access-date=18 December 2015}}] |
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Lüthy was appointed superintendent of hydraulic apparatus in 1870, about August 1883 he went on business to Australia connected with the [[Maritime transport|shipping]] of [[Frozen food|frozen meat]] and to inspect machinery for a large [[freezing]] establishment, but died suddenly on 3 July 1884, the day after he returned home.[{{cite book|last1=Spike|first1=Archibald|title=Bibliographia Boltonensis: being a bibliography, with biographical details of Bolton authors, and the books written by them from 1550 to 1912; books about Bolton; and those printed and published in the town from 1785 to date|date=1913|publisher=Manchester: The University Press|pages=82, 101|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029566019#page/n103/mode/2up|access-date=18 December 2015}}] |
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