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ROPE SYSTEMS

The Rope Drive in the multi-storeyed Lowertown Mill, , 1895 “ Mills,” Columb Giles & Ian H Goodall, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of & Archaeology Service , 1995 (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

Powered Mules in a Mill, 1835 “Cotton Mills in Greater ,” Mike Williams with D A Farne, the Archaeological Unit & the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England , 1992 (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

Carding engines (left) -driven from an overhead line shaft, about 1830 (Williams & Farne)

Lumbhole Mill, Kettleshulme housed a ands steam and a waterwheel working as a complementary system to drive line shafting to power textile machinery, c.1835. “East Textile Mills,” Anthony Calladine & Jean Fricker, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England , 1993 (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

Engine House at Albert Mills, Lockwood with drying floors over the boilers, showing the and (D) Upright drive shaft and (E) Line shaft (Giles & Goodall)

A 15000 horsepower triple-expansion engine and rope drive at a Mill of 1897 (Williams & Farne)

The engine house at Hare Mill, Stansfield, 1907, showing the horizontal cross-compound engines and the rope drive feeding into the rope race (Giles & Goodall )

The Rope Race added to the external wall of the mill at Barkerend Mills, , c.1870 (Giles & Goodall)

Photograph of 1907 showing cotton mill workers and their powered by belts and pulleys from an overhead line shaft

Another picture of machinery drive arrangements, this time at , (community.webshots.com)

The 1930’s Turbine & Switch Room at Manningham Mills in Manningham (Giles & Goodall)

By the end of the First World War, electricity started to eliminate shafts, pulley wheels and belts driven from a central engine house. Thousands of individual electric motors became the norm and by 1919 it was estimated that some 2 million horsepower was in use.