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{{short description|British manufacturer of steam engines and boilers}}
{{Other people|John Galloway}}
{{Infobox company
| name = W & J Galloway & Sons
| logo = Thinktank Birmingham - object 1956S00658(3).jpg
| fate = Defunct
| predecessor = William & John Galloway
| successor = Hick, Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
| foundation = 1790
| founder = William Galloway
| defunct = 1933
| location_city = Manchester
| location_country = England
| key_people = John Galloway (Inventor)
| industry = Engineering
| products = Steam engines<br>[[Engineering:Boiler|Boiler]]s for steam engines
}}

'''W & J Galloway and Sons''' was a British manufacturer of [[Physics:Steam engine|steam engine]]s and [[Engineering:Boiler|boiler]]s based in Manchester, England. The firm was established in 1835 as a partnership of two brothers, William and John Galloway. The partnership expanded to encompass their sons and in 1889 it was restructured as a limited liability company. It ceased trading in 1932.

The Galloway brothers had been apprenticed to another partnership involving their father, a maker of waterwheels and gearing for mills, before setting up in business on their own account. Their firm grew to be a specialist producer of steam engines and industrial boilers with a worldwide customer base and a reputation for ingenuity. Their products were used in such diverse areas as electricity generation<ref>{{cite book |title=Motive power and gearing for electrical machinery: a treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical equipment of power stations for electric supply and for electric traction |pages=323, 560 |author=Carter, Edward Tremlett |series="The Electrician" series |year=1896 |publisher=D. Van Nostrand Co |location=New York |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005715235 |access-date=28 February 2011}}</ref> and refrigeration.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b31903 |title=Machinery for refrigeration |page=216 |author=Selfe, Norman |year=1900 |publisher=H. S. Rich & Co |location=Chicago |access-date=28 February 2011}}</ref> The business grew with the increasing application of steam power in industry, and it died with industry's move to the application of electric power.

==History==
===Galloway, Bowman and Glasgow===
William Galloway was born on 5 March 1768 at Coldstream in the Scottish Borders, became a millwright and moved to Manchester in 1790.<ref name="ODNB">ODNB</ref> He was one of many Scots who moved to England seeking to gain from the rapid expansion of industry there; others included William Murdoch and James Watt, who settled in Birmingham, and fellow settlers in the Manchester area, John Kennedy, James McConnel and the cotton-spinning brothers, Adam and George Murray.<ref name="Chalonerp99">Chaloner p. 99.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=The Origins of Engineering in Lancashire |first1=A. E. |last1=Musson |first2=E. |last2= Robinson |journal=The Journal of Economic History |volume=20 |issue=2 |date=June 1960 |page=223 |jstor=2114855 |publisher=Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association|doi=10.1017/S0022050700110435 |s2cid=154008652 }}</ref>

He set up business at his home address, 37 Lombard Street.<ref name="Chalonerp100">Chaloner p. 100.</ref> In 1806<ref name="Eng18940216">{{cite journal |journal=The Engineer |title=John Galloway |date=16 February 1894}}</ref> he formed a business partnership with a friend and fellow ex-resident of Coldstream, James Bowman: Galloway wrote to him offering a joint business venture in return for a £200 injection of [[Finance:Capital (economics)|capital]]. Bowman moved from London, where he had gone to seek his fortune, and took up residence at Trumpet Street, Manchester.<ref name="Chalonerp100"/><ref name="Chaloner118"/> It would appear that the partnership with Bowman coincided with a move to premises at the Caledonia Foundry at 44, Great Bridgewater Street, on the corner of Albion Street in the Gaythorn district.<ref name="Eng18940216"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/ind-rev-series-1-part-14/documents/Reel263.pdf |title=The Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from Birmingham Central Library |publisher=Adam Matthew Publications |page=5 |date=12 October 1833 |access-date=3 February 2011}}</ref> At this time the business traded as millwrights but by 1813 "engineers" had been added to the description, and by 1817 there was the addition of "ironfounders".<ref name="Chalonerp100"/> The term "engineer" in relation to mechanical work was a relatively new one.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=The Origins of Engineering in Lancashire |first1=A. E. |last1=Musson |first2=E. |last2= Robinson |journal=The Journal of Economic History |volume=20 |issue=2 |date=June 1960 |page=215 |jstor=2114855 |publisher=Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association|doi=10.1017/S0022050700110435 |s2cid=154008652 }}</ref>

Around 1820, William Glasgow, a foundryman from the Tweed who had been working in Bolton for [[Biography:Benjamin Hick|Rothwell and Hick]], joined Galloway and Bowman as a junior partner. His role was to supervise the new ironfounding section of the business. The works were extended by the purchase of additional land.<ref name="Chalonerp100"/><ref name="MAE1896">{{cite journal |year=1896 |title=Obituary |journal=Transactions of the Manchester Association of Engineers |pages=318–320 |url=https://archive.org/details/transactionsman07engigoog |access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> The partnership manufactured [[Engineering:Water wheel|water wheel]]s, their associated [[Physics:Gear|gear]]ing, and other machinery associated with all forms of milling. As early as 1820 the men had completed some projects for customers in France (at Lille) and the United States (Charleston, South Carolina).<ref name="Chaloner101"/>

His son, John, wrote later that {{blockquote|It was rather remarkable that nearly all the original millwrights in Manchester came from the neighbourhood of the Tweed&nbsp;... All were Scotchmen&nbsp;– quiet, respectable and mostly middle aged, with experience, for in those days a man was not put to mind one machine year after year. He had to understand pretty nearly the whole process, from taking particulars and making patterns, to fixing machinery in the mill.<ref name="Chalonerp100"/>}}

At some time before 1828 Galloway and Bowman formed a partnership as machine makers. This was separate and in addition to their partnership with Glasgow, which continued to trade as millwrights, founders and engineers.<ref name="Chaloner101"/> It has been speculated that Bowman married a sister of Galloway.<ref name="Chaloner118">Chaloner p. 118.</ref>

The firm of Galloway, Bowman and Glasgow became the repair facility for the fledgling Liverpool and Manchester Railway which had no workshops of its own.<ref name="MAE1906p3">Rendell p. 3.</ref> In 1830–31 the partnership constructed its first steam locomotive, the ''Manchester'' and by the following year had produced the ''Caledonian''. They had wooden wheels on to which were shrunk welded metal tyres. The wheels were built by John Ashbury, who was later to become a notable engineer in his own right and the owner of the eponymous railway wagon works at Openshaw.<ref name="Eng18940216"/><ref name="Chaloner107">Chaloner p. 107.</ref>

Neither locomotive was initially a success, although the design problems were resolved. In the case of ''Caledonian'' the vertical cylinders were placed between the frames in front of the smokebox and drove vertically mounted connecting rods attached to the leading wheels, which were also in front of the smokebox. It had a tendency to derail and had to be rebuilt with inside cylinders and a cranked axle.<ref name="sekon">{{cite book |last1=Sekon |first1=GA |pages=54–55 |title=The Evolution of the steam locomotive, 1803–1898 | publisher=The Railway Publishing Co Ltd |location=London |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/stream/evolutionsteaml00nokegoog |access-date=3 February 2011}}</ref> Vertical cylinders were the norm at this time (other builders used them too), the theory being that a horizontal or inclined arrangement would lead to premature wear due to the weight of the [[Engineering:Piston|piston]].<ref name="MAE1906p12">Rendell p. 12.</ref> Four or five locomotives were built at a price fixed by the railway company of between £900 and £1000 each. John Galloway junior commented late in life that: {{blockquote|"...&nbsp;the trade did not seem likely to be remunerative, and we certainly did not foresee the immense possibilities of the railroad. It was generally considered that about 20 engines would be all that would be required, and competition was keenly felt at the beginning."<ref name="Chaloner109">Chaloner p. 109.</ref>}}

The success to come with [[Engineering:Stationary steam engine|stationary steam engine]]s was in no small part based on the experiences with the short-lived railway locomotive production: the locomotives had boilers rated for {{convert|50|psi|bar|lk=on}}, compared to the normal stationary engine boiler rating at that time of {{convert|5|or|10|psi|bar|abbr=on}}.<ref name="MAE1906p4">Rendell p. 4.</ref> To put this into context, however, John Galloway senior is reported to have said that the challenges of building a locomotive were nothing compared to those of getting it out of the works and onto the railway afterwards.<ref name="MAE1906p48">Rendell p. 48.</ref> He elaborated that {{blockquote|When we had constructed the engine&nbsp;... we were met with the serious difficulty of getting it down to the station. We could not put steam on, nor was there a wagon which would take it; so we had to 'bar' it down to Ordsal-lane, which took a gang of men with crowbars from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the next morning.<ref name="Eng18940216"/>}}

By this time the partnership were producing a wide range of engineered items, including: wagons and associated parts for collieries and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway; machinery for silk mills and for salt works; steam engines for cotton mills; pipes for [[Biography:James Prescott Joule|Benjamin Joule]]'s<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society |location=Manchester |volume=6 |series=4th |title=Memoir of James Prescott Joule |publisher=Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society |year=1892 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/memoirsandproce15socigoog/page/n49 25]–26 |author=Reynolds, Osbourne |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsandproce15socigoog |access-date=7 March 2011 }}</ref> Salford Brewery in New Bailey Street, Salford; and also a [[Chemistry:Lead|lead]] [[Engineering:Rolling (metalworking)#History|rolling mill]].<ref name="Chaloner108">Chaloner p. 108.</ref>

William Galloway junior was born in 1796<ref name="ODNB" /> and on 14 February 1804 his brother, John, was born at his father's Lombard Street address.<ref name="Chaloner101">Chaloner p. 101.</ref> The brothers were both apprenticed for seven years to their father from the age of 14, William as an ironfounder and John as a millwright and engineer. Bowman's son, William, was similarly apprenticed as a millwright from 1821.<ref name="Chaloner103">Chaloner p. 103.</ref> In the last year of his apprenticeship, 1824, John Galloway went to Dunkirk to install engines, boilers and pumps for the French government.<ref name="Eng18940216"/>

William Galloway senior died on 7 September 1836 and some time between April and December 1838 James Bowman also died. Glasgow had given Bowman six months' notice of his wish to terminate the partnership on 11 April 1838.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{London Gazette|issue=19712 |page=474 |date=1 March 1839 }}</ref> In 1839 the Galloway brothers bought some of the stock of the erstwhile partnership which was being disposed of by auction.<ref name="Chaloner109" /> The Caledonia foundry building was subsumed by Central Station by the 1890s.<ref name="Chalonerp100"/>

It is possible that William Glasgow was still conducting business as an ironfounder in 1841 from an address at Gloucester Street.<ref name="Chaloner109"/>

===W & J Galloway===
[[File:John Galloway.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|John Galloway, 1804–1894]]
The Galloway brothers worked for their father's partnership until in 1835, not long before its demise they set up business together as W. and J. Galloway. They had been considering such a move since at least 1830, with John saying many years later that "there were too many in partnership already, and conflicting interests began to present themselves".<ref name="Chaloner104">Chaloner p. 104.</ref> <!--need to find pp 107–108 of Chaloner as might explain further -->

The brothers built a foundry at Knott Mill, near Chester Road in Hulme on the site of former premises which had served a similar purpose but had fallen into disuse subsequent to the death of its owner, Alexander Brodie, in 1811. The site was near to William's address as known in 1832, which was 26 Jackson's Lane, Hulme. (The lane was subsequently renamed Great Jackson Street).<ref name="Chaloner108" /><ref name="Chaloner119">Chaloner p. 119.</ref> A key advantage of the site was the adjacent River Medlock, sources of water being vital for iron founding and the operation of steam engines, and it was the erosion caused by this watercourse which required the works to be built on two levels.<ref>Archives of Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester</ref> It has been noted that the Medlock had a greater concentration of steam engines along its length than any other similar river in England and the quality of the water was so poor, due to industrial pollution, that there were immense difficulties with priming in steam engine boilers.<ref name="Hills129">Hills p. 129.</ref>

Before 1840 the firm had manufactured at least two steam engines, the first for Hayward of Yeovil, Somerset and the second for a mill in Glossop, Derbyshire. In that year they were successful in gaining much work in the manufacture of gas pipes and equipment for gasworks, a new and burgeoning industry. From 1842 until June 1847 the brothers were in partnership, as Galloways & Company, with Joseph Haley, in Manchester and [[Place:Paris|Paris]], as "Manufacturers of Patent Screw or Lifting Jacks, and as Patentees of Machines for cutting, punching and compressing Metals, and of the Rivets and other articles constructed by the said last-mentioned Machines&nbsp;... [and] as Cotton Banding Manufacturers". In that month the partnership was dissolved and the Galloways continued to manufacture the machines and rivets in Manchester and Haley continued with the rivets in Paris. By 1856 they had six of these machines in their factory and manufactured two tons of rivets per machine per day, the devices being operated by one man and 20 boys.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20745 |page=2236 |date=18 June 1847 }}</ref><ref name="Chaloner110">Chaloner p. 110.</ref> An example of a wooden-bodied Galloway-Haley lifting jack is in Museo del Ferrocarril (railway museum) in [[Place:Madrid|Madrid]]. The patents were Haley's; for example, patent number 8768 of 31 December 1840 for an improved lifting jack and compressor.<ref name="Chaloner119"/>

From 1848 the brothers took out numerous patents related to steam power, with John Galloway taking a particular interest in issues to improve the efficiency of boilers. Before that they had registered at least one design to improve efficiency under the Designs Act of 1843.<ref name="Chaloner111">Chaloner p. 111.</ref> The most significant of the early patents was that of 11 March 1851 (England and Wales) and 14 April 1851 (Scotland) for the Galloway boiler, (UK patent 13532/1851, extended in 1865 for a further five years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22947 |page=1448 |date=10 March 1865 }}</ref>). They had built boilers of this type before the patent was granted, since at least 1849, and one was exhibited in 1851 at the [[History:Great Exhibition|Great Exhibition]] before being purchased<ref>{{cite book|title=The Modern Practice of Boiler Engineering |author=Armstrong, Robert |page=53 |publisher=E & F N Spon |location=London |year=1856 |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066421706 |access-date=27 February 2011}}</ref> by the West Ham Gutta Percha Company. The firm built approximately 9,000 of the type by 1891 and licensed the design for manufacture by other parties. So much work was created by this aspect of the business that in 1872 premises were obtained on Hyde Road, near Ardwick railway station,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/cu3192405253178 |title=Manchester Old and New |author=Shaw, William Arthur |page=65 |year=1894 |publisher=Cassell |location=London }}</ref> to handle it, leaving the Knott Mill works to concentrate on building engines.<ref name="Chaloner112">Chaloner p. 112.</ref>

The Lancashire boiler, which formed the basis on which the Galloways developed their 1851 design, had been patented by Sir William Fairbairn and John Hetherington in 1844.<ref name="Chaloner112"/> In 1854 Fairbairn was sent a warning letter by the firm regarding what they believed to be an infringement of their patents. Nine years previously the Galloways had done the same to James Lillie, a former business partner of Fairbairn, with reference to a boiler-related design that they alleged had been registered by them in 1845, although there is no record of any such designs or patents of the type which were registered by the Galloways between 1843 and 1845.<ref name="Chaloner111"/><ref name="Chaloner120">Chaloner p. 120.</ref>

The Galloway boiler was not entirely the work of the brothers as they sought the advice of Robert Armstrong, a consulting engineer, in 1850 and it was he who arranged for the boiler to be exhibited in 1851.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Modern Practice of Boiler Engineering |author=Armstrong, Robert |pages=35, 54 |publisher=E & F N Spon |location=London |year=1856 |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066421706 |access-date=27 February 2011}}</ref> Similarly, Sekon notes that at least one Galloway patent relating to boilers was originally devised by another person: Timothy Hackworth's 1830 design for the boiler of his locomotive ''The Globe'' was later patented by the Galloways for use with stationary steam engines.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sekon |first1=GA |page=47 |title=The Evolution of the steam locomotive, 1803–1898 | publisher=The Railway Publishing Co Ltd |location=London |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/stream/evolutionsteaml00nokegoog |access-date=3 February 2011}}</ref>

===Working with Bessemer===
From 1855 the firm was working with Henry Bessemer, inventor of the eponymous [[Engineering:Bessemer process|process]], in steel manufacture; he described William Galloway as "my old friend" when writing in 1905.<ref name="Bessemer287">Bessemer p. 287.</ref> He had been a customer of the firm since 1843 when he had developed a process for refining sugar and employed the Galloways to construct it. Bessemer and Galloways conducted a series of experiments throughout 1855 on land bought for the purpose at the Knott Mill Ironworks. This was while he was trying to prove his method, and Galloways are thought likely to have constructed the equipment that Bessemer used in his later trials at Baxter House in London, after which he announced the process to the world in August 1856 at Cheltenham. From these events comes the claim, frequently made including by John Galloway, that the first ingots of Bessemer steel were made at the Knott Mill Ironworks. Furthermore, the Galloways were the first to license Bessemer's process, obtaining the rights to operate it in Manchester and for a radius of {{convert|10|miles|km}} around before the process was made public.<ref name="ODNB" /><ref name="Bessemer176-177">Bessemer pp. 176–177.</ref><ref name="Lord166">{{cite journal |title=The Development of the Bessemer Process in Lancashire, 1856–1900 |first=W. M. |last=Lord |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |year=1945 |volume=25 |page=166 |doi=10.1179/tns.1945.017}}</ref><ref name="Chaloner116"/> Within a month of his announcement Bessemer had raised £27,000, granting further licenses to the Dowlais Ironworks in South Wales, Govan Iron Works (Glasgow), Butterley Iron Company (Derbyshire), and a tin-plate company in Wales.<ref>Bessemer pp. 167–168.</ref>

The Knott Mill works were one of those at which Bessemer set up his experimental "converting vessels" when attempting to prove his process commercially late in 1856. The other test sites were Dowlais, Butterley and Govan. The tests failed to work as intended: it later became clear that this was because the [[Chemistry:Pig iron|pig iron]] used contained [[Chemistry:Phosphorus|phosphorus]] whereas that with which he had experimented in London did not. The product was "rotten hot and rotten cold", according to his friend, William Clay<ref name="Ericksonp142">{{cite book |first=Charlotte |last=Erickson |title=British industrialists: steel and hosiery 1850–1950 |year=1986 |orig-year=1959 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=142 |isbn=0-566-05141-9}}</ref> He refunded the licensees' money and an additional £5,500.<ref name="Bessemer170-172">Bessemer pp. 170–172.</ref><ref name="odnbbess">{{cite ODNB |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |location=Oxford |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2287 |year=2004 |last=Tweedale |first=Geoffrey |chapter=Bessemer, Sir Henry |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2287 }}</ref> The problem was that to remove phosphorus, a basic slag was needed, but Bessemer's sand-based refractory lining (now called acidic) reacts with it into silicates rather than the phosphorus. It would take until 1877 for a basic lining [[Chemistry:Gilchrist–Thomas process|to be developed]], when the converter became economical to use with phosphorus-rich iron ores.

It was a further two years before Bessemer resolved the technical metallurgical problems, at which point the Galloway ironworks were once again his test site. There he trialled the steel he had produced at his London factory, which he granulated and then transported for remelting and conversion into ingots at Sheffield:<ref name="odnbbess"/>{{blockquote|So identical in all essential qualities was this steel with that usually employed that, during two months' trial of it, the workmen had not the slightest idea or suspicion that they were using steel made by a new process. They were accustomed to use steel of the best quality, costing £60 per ton, and they had no doubt whatever that they were still doing so.<ref name="Bessemer175">Bessemer p. 175.</ref>}}

When this success was achieved in 1858 the Galloways gave up their licensed rights, which had not been bought back as had those of the other licensees. They went instead into partnership with Bessemer, Robert Longsdon and William Daniel Allen (long-term business partners, and both of them his brothers-in-law)<ref>{{cite book |title=Chronology of iron and steel |first1=Stephen Lincoln |last1=Goodale |first2=J. Ramsey |last2=Speer |publisher=Pittsburgh Iron & Steel Foundries Company |location=Pittsburgh |year=1920 |page=142 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001041853 |access-date=28 February 2011}}</ref> in building and operating his steel works in Sheffield.<ref name="Bessemer176-177"/> The business, established in 1859,<ref name="ODNB" /> was called Henry Bessemer & Co. and the capital input totalled around £12,000 with Bessemer and Longdon contributing £6,000, Allen contributing £500 and the Galloways £5,000. The partnership agreement was to be operational for 14 years.<ref name="Bessemer176-177"/><ref name="odnbbess"/> It initially produced steel at £10 to £15 cheaper per ton than had previously been possible, and later for around £45 less.<ref>Bessemer p. 189.</ref><ref name="Chaloner117">Chaloner p. 117.</ref> The Galloways supplied equipment for its works&nbsp;– including tyre mills for the production of railway wheels<ref>{{cite book |page=[https://archive.org/details/productionirona01hewigoog/page/n61 57] |title=The production of iron and steel |author=Hewitt, Abram S. |year=1868 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, US |url=https://archive.org/details/productionirona01hewigoog}}</ref>&nbsp;– as well as, later, for other works which licensed the process, such as the Weardale Iron Company and [[Company:Firth Brown Steels|John Brown]] of Sheffield.<ref name="Chaloner117"/> The venture blossomed, although Bessemer made more money from his licensing deals. He quotes the following profit/(loss) figures for the early years of the factory's trading:

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
|+ Bessemer's Sheffield factory: profit / (loss) in the early years of trading (£)<ref name="Bessemer334">Bessemer p. 334.</ref>
|-
! 1858 !! 1859 !! 1860 !! 1861 !! 1862 !! 1863 !! 1864 !! 1865 !! 1866 !! 1867
|-
| (729) || (1,093) || 923 || 1,475 || 3,685 || 10.968 || 11,827 || 3,949 || 18,076 || 28,622
|}

Another involvement was in Bessemer's disastrous attempts to produce a ship with a stabilised passenger area, the ''SS Bessemer'', for which Galloways supplied the hydraulic equipment. The concept had been that a saloon within the vessel would be supported in such a way as not to pitch, roll or yaw as the ship sailed.<ref name="Bessemer325">Bessemer p. 325.</ref> (The ship's manoeuvrability was poor and, having crashed on its maiden voyage, investors lost confidence and the project was abandoned with the equipment remaining untested.)

The firm manufactured on behalf of Bessemer the converters for the works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company in the late 1860s.<ref name="Bessemer339">Bessemer p. 339.</ref> Along with Hick, Hargreaves of Bolton, Galloways were the only business allowed to produce equipment for the new process.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Development of the Bessemer Process in Lancashire, 1856–1900 |first1=W. M. |last1=Lord |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |year=1945 |volume=25 |page=169 |doi=10.1179/tns.1945.017}}</ref>

Nor might these have been their only involvement: William Galloway owned land at Runcorn and there were discussions between him and Bessemer regarding a partnership to erect a [[Engineering:Blast furnace|blast furnace]] for the purpose of manufacturing "[[Chemistry:Spiegeleisen|rich manganesian pig-iron]]", which was required at that time to [[Engineering:Deoxidization|de-oxidise]] the molten blown metal. However, delays in progressing this idea, due to Bessemer's process gaining widespread use, ultimately resulted in Galloway feeling he was too old to embark on the venture.<ref name="Bessemer285">Bessemer p. 285.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Development of the Bessemer Process in Lancashire, 1856–1900 |first1=W. M. |last1=Lord |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |year=1945 |volume=25 |page=171 |doi=10.1179/tns.1945.017}}</ref>

The partnership of Henry Bessemer & Co. was formally ended on 25 June 1877 "by the effluxion of time", although the Sheffield factory continued production with Allen buying Bessemer's interest in it that year. The dissolution of the partnership involved selling the business, its premises and its equipment. Including the distributions of profits made during its lifespan, each partner had at the date of effective dissolution in 1873 made 81 times the amount of money that they had original subscribed.<ref name="Bessemer176-177"/> William Galloway had died in 1873<ref name="ODNB" /> (his executors being John Galloway junior, John Brown Payne and John Galloway Meller), as had Robert Longsdon, whose executors were also named in the notice of partnership dissolution; Bessemer had retired from day-to-day business in the same year.<ref name="odnbbess"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24480 |page=4082 |date=10 July 1877 }}</ref> A person with the last name of Meller, but not John Galloway Meller, had been an executor to the estate of William Galloway senior.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

===W & J Galloway & Sons===
[[File:Thinktank Birmingham - object 1956S00658(1).jpg|thumb|Galloway [[Engineering:Uniflow steam engine|uniflow steam engine]], now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum]]

In 1856 the sons of the firm's founders joined the partnership: John Galloway, the son of William, born on 18 July 1826 at Great Jackson Street, Manchester, and Charles John the son of John, born 25 April 1833. Both had been apprenticed to the firm and its name was adjusted to reflect their involvement.<ref name="ODNB" /><ref name="Chaloner117" /><ref name="MAE1904">{{cite journal |year=1904 |title=Chas. John Galloway |journal=Transactions of the Manchester Association of Engineers |pages=xvi–xvii |url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionsman03engigoog |access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> Great Jackson Street was very close to the Knott Mill works and ''Pigot and Slater's General and Classified Directory of Manchester and Salford'' for 1841 not merely lists William junior living at number 69 but also John at number 55 and a Mrs Mary Galloway at 67. It also shows members of the Glasgow family, including William at 34 Great Bridgewater Street and John at 53 Great Jackson Street.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp |title=Pigot and Slater's General and Classified Directory of Manchester and Salford |pages=101, 105 |year=1841 |publisher=Pigot and Slater |location=Manchester |access-date=1 March 2011}}</ref>

Despite the expansion of the partnership a deed registered in the Court of Bankruptcy in July 1864 only names William and John Galloway, who were to receive a payment of 6s. 8d. in the pound from Thomas Redhead of Belvoir Terrace, Old Chester Road, Tranmere, the proprietor of a steam tug.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22875 |page=3597 |date=15 July 1864 }}</ref> A petition for the winding-up of the Globe New Patent Iron and Steel Co, Ltd. in 1875 shows that by that date the partnership comprised John Galloway snr, John Galloway Jnr, Charles John Galloway and Edward Napier Galloway.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24218 |page=3063 |date=11 June 1875 }}</ref> Edward was another son of John senior, who married a Miss Lewis in 1827 and they had four sons and a daughter.<ref name="Eng18940216"/>

During the 1850s and 1860s the firm generated many overseas sales to countries such as Turkey, India and Russia, and for items as diverse as gunpowder mills, boilers, presses, and steam engines for use in a wide variety of applications. The firm supplied cast iron columns for buildings, constructed the pier at Southport (and then extended it, for which the tender was £3,000)<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s21TAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA451 |title=Tenders |journal=The Builder |date=20 June 1863 |page=451 |volume=21 |issue=1063 |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> and, between 1855 and 1857, a {{convert|1535|ft|m}} railway viaduct over the River Leven close to Ulverston. The pier and the bridge employed a new construction method devised by John Galloway, using pressurised water jets to create the holes into which the piles were later driven.<ref name="Chaloner116">Chaloner pp. 113–116.</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Description of the iron viaducts erected across the tidal estuaries of the Rivers Leven and Kent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7iwAAAAIAA |last1=Brunlees |first1=James |publisher=Institution of Civil Engineers |location=London |year=1858 |access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref>

Galloways were among the well-known promoters of a new business, The Lancashire Steel Company Ltd., in 1863. The intention was that this company would develop a 10&nbsp;acre site at Gorton with buildings, blast furnaces and all the necessaries of steel production by the Bessemer process, in order initially to produce 200 tons a week of steel in blocks weighing up to 10 tons. The site was adjacent to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, for ease of transport. It was planned to eventually produce 20 ton blocks and to equip it with the most powerful tooling so that the company could supply the maritime market. Capitalisation was to be £150,000.<ref>{{citation |title=Advertisement |page=63 |journal=The Chemical News |volume=7 |publisher=J H Dutton |location=London |date=1 August 1863| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgcAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA62-IA1 |access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> In fact, the venture was a failure and it was [[Finance:Liquidation|wound-up]] in 1867.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23302 |page=5133 |date=17 September 1867 }}</ref><!-- any idea why it failed? -->

Around 1873 the firm supplied two [[Physics:Blowing engine|blowing engine]]s to the huge Krupp steelworks at Essen, Germany.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101049916941 |title=Progress of the iron and steel industries: Germany |journal=Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine |date=July–December 1874 |volume=11 |page=173 |publisher=D Van Nostrand |location=New York |access-date=26 February 2011}}</ref> It was in this decade that the company began to install [[Engineering:Line shaft|flat belt drive systems]] for the transfer of power from its stationary steam engines to the looms and similar machinery which they were intended to service. This technique was common in the US but rare in Britain until this time: the advantages included less noise and less wasted energy in the friction losses inherent in the previously common drive shafts and their associated gearing. Also, maintenance was simpler and cheaper, and it was a more convenient method for the arrangement of power drives such that if one part were to fail then it would not cause loss of power to all sections of a factory or mill. These systems were in turn superseded in popularity by [[Engineering:Rope drive|rope drive]] methods.{{sfnp|Hills|1989|pages= 208–210}}

Charles John Galloway had a particular interest in exhibitions. The firm displayed two 40 horsepower Galloway boilers at the 1873 Vienna Universal Exhibition, and a 35 horsepower [[Engineering:Compound engine|compound engine]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873 |publisher=HMSO |author=Royal Commission on the Vienna Universal Exhibition 1873 |year=1874 | pages=203. 204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g5AAAAAYAAJ |access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> In 1876 the firm was gazetted for an award for Services to the American Executive in Machinery Department at the Philadelphia International Exhibition,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24527 |page=6897 |date=30 November 1877 }}</ref> and he was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour after the Paris Exhibition of 1878, raised to the rank of Officer after the similarly titled event of 1889. He was very active in the organisation of the Royal Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 1887.<ref name="MAE1904"/> John Galloway junior was chairman of the organising committee for the latter event.<ref name="MAE1896" /> Some years later, in 1894, Galloways won the ''Grand Prix'' in the ''Motive & Machines'' section of the Antwerp International Exhibition.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26579 |page=7360 |date=14 December 1894 }}</ref>

Charles John did not limit his activities to that of the family firm and was chairman of Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Co. Ltd. in September 1880, when an extraordinary general meeting held in King Street, Manchester resolved to liquidate the company and sell its business and assets.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24888 |page=5166 |date=5 October 1880 }}</ref> He was also a director of the Manchester Ship Canal Company<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionsman03engigoog |page=XVII |title=Transactions |year=1904 |publisher=The Manchester Association of Engineers |location=Manchester |access-date=5 March 2011}}</ref> and had been a director of the Steam Boiler Assurance Co. Ltd.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Mechanics' Magazine |volume=1 |issue=10 |series=New series |page=iv |title=Steam Boiler Assurance Company, Market-Street, Manchester|date=4 March 1859 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2J0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA470}}</ref>

===Galloways Ltd.===
The partnership was converted into a private company, Galloways Ltd., in 1889, with a share capital of £250,000 in £100 shares. The initial subscribers, who each took one share, were John Galloway, John Galloway junior, Charles John Galloway, Edward Napier Galloway, Arthur Walter Galloway, John Henry Beckwith, W E Norbury and C Rought&nbsp;– all but the last giving their address as the Knott Mill Ironworks.<ref>{{cite journal |year=1889 |title=Galloways Ltd |journal=The Chemical Trade Journal |volume=4 |page=235 |publisher=Davis |location=Manchester |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAkAAAAAMAAJ |access-date=3 February 2011 }}</ref> Beckwith, [[Organization:Institution of Mechanical Engineers|MIMechE]], had been a frequent co-applicant with Charles John Galloway in applications for patents and provisional protection thereof: he had joined the company in his early 20s in 1864 as a draughtsman and, after a brief interlude working for another business in [[Place:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]], returned in 1867; by 1877 he was chief design engineer and he became managing director with the conversion to limited company status; he resigned as managing director in 1897 but kept his seat on the board of directors until his death one year later.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/p3p4proceedin1898inst |title=Memoirs |journal=Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers |pages=[https://archive.org/details/p3p4proceedin1898inst/page/701 701]–702 |year=1898 |location=Westminster, London |access-date=2 March 2011}}</ref>

John Galloway junior had been increasingly involved in the management of the partnership as it grew rapidly but the restructuring of the partnership as a company saw Charles John Galloway installed as chairman and managing director.<ref name="ODNB" /> John Galloway junior had numerous other business interests, and was a [[Social:Justice of the peace|JP]] (as was Charles) and had a great interest in philanthropy. His business interests included being chairman of Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Hull, and a director of Carnforth Hematite Iron Co, ''(correct spelling, founded 1865<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Development of the Bessemer Process in Lancashire, 1856–1900 |first1=W. M. |last1=Lord |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |year=1945 |volume=25 |page=172 |doi=10.1179/tns.1945.017}}</ref>)'' the North of England Trustee, Debenture & Assets Corporation Ltd., Hoyland & Silkstone Colliery Co. and the Blackpool Land Company.<ref name="MAE1896" /> Earle's had built the ''SS Bessemer''.

Five years later, on 11 February 1894, John Galloway senior died aged almost 90. His estate was valued at £143,117<ref name="ODNB" /> and by this time the company had 500 employees at the Knott Mill site and a further 800 at Ardwick.<ref name="Chaloner112"/> His last home address was Coldstream House, Old Trafford and his executors were William Lewis Galloway (a sugar refiner, of The Lawn, Brook Lane, Timperley and sometime councillor of the County Borough of Salford),<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |date=31 October 1867 |title=Municipal Elections |page=4 |publisher={{wipe|British Newspaper Archive}} }} {{subscription required}}</ref> Edward Napier Galloway (Normanby, Altrincham) and John Galloway Meller (a land agent of Cooper Street, Manchester).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26497 |page=1751 |date=23 March 1894 }}</ref> An engineer, Edward Galloway was appointed a Land Tax Commissioner in 1899;<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27107 |page=5041 |date=11 August 1899 }}</ref> he died on 5 October 1919 when living at Hill Rise, Leicester Road, Altrincham.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31841 |page=3956 |date= 30 March 1920 }}</ref> The children of John Galloway established a charitable fund in memory of him and his wife, Emma, in 1895.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Manchester: The parish and advowson |title=A History of the County of Lancaster |volume=4 |year=1911 |pages=192–204 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41406 |access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref> This survived under the name of the John and Emma Galloway Memorial until October 1991, when it was amalgamated.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1004692&SubsidiaryNumber=0 |publisher=Charities Commission |title=1004692&nbsp;– John and Emma Galloway Memorial|access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref>

John Galloway junior died on 16 December 1896 at his home, The Cottage, Seymour Grove, Manchester. He left one son, William Johnson Galloway, born in 1868, who was also involved with the family firm and was at the time of his father's death the Conservative MP for Manchester South-west (his father, although keeping a low profile, was of Liberal persuasion and a member of the United Presbyterian Church).<ref name="ODNB" /> Both of these men were interred at Weaste Cemetery, Salford.<ref name="MAE1896" />

There was a capital restructuring in 1895,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26638 |page=3674 |date=28 June 1895 }}</ref> and in 1899 the business became a public limited company.<ref name="Chaloner117" /><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27089 |page=3747 |date=13 June 1899 }}</ref> Somewhere between these dates the chairmanship appears to have moved from Charles John Galloway to Edward Napier Galloway, according to the announcements in ''The London Gazette''. However, ''The Engineer'' reported Charles John as chairman at the company's annual general meeting in 1901 and noted that Sir Richard Mottram was a director.<ref name="Eng19010301">{{cite journal|journal=The Engineer |date=1 March 1901 |title=Galloways Limited, Manchester}}</ref> Mottram was Mayor of Salford between 1894 and 1898; he held other directorships with Manchester Liners Ltd (or perhaps Manchester Linen Ltd)<ref>{{cite book |title=Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage |publisher=S. Low, Marston & Co. |year=1901 |page=618 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcVsAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> and Chillan Mills Co Ltd.<ref>{{cite book |title=Who Was Who |volume=1 |year=1962 |page=510 |publisher=A. & C. Black |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NA3YAAAAMAAJ }}</ref>

The 1901 meeting authorised a dividend payment of 6% and the issue of 2,746 shares at £10 each in order to aid investment in plant and extended premises for the purpose of manufacturing '[[Engineering:High-speed steam engine|high-speed engines]]'. This issue of shares amounted to 20% of the then issued capital, and they were taken up by existing shareholders.<ref name="Eng19010301"/> In the same year the company considerably extended its Knott Mill factory, at which time a visitor noted in particular the work in progress on "several exceptionally large engines for iron and steel works" (one had a 45 ton, 24-foot diameter flywheel and a total weight of 230 tons) and also a wood treatment plant for the Northern Wood Haskinising Company (''haskinising'' was a wood preservation technique<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46530#s5 |title=Cubitt Town |work=British History Online |publisher=University of London & History of Parliament Trust |access-date=28 February 2011}}</ref>).<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Engineer |date=5 April 1901 |page=359 |title=Notes from Lancashire}}</ref> There were reports at this time that the company had licensed and was developing Pictet's discovery of an improved method for the production of oxygen gas, although there were suggestions that this may have been as part of a syndicate involving other Manchester businesses. The plan was for Pictet to experiment further at the Galloway works and if the outcome was successful then a new company would be formed.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Age of Steel |volume=90 |issue=13 |date=28 September 1901 |title=A new oxygen process and the metal trade |page=35 |location=St Louis, MO. |publisher=Journal of Commerce Co. |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015086667113;seq=673;size=175;view=image |access-date=22 May 2011}}</ref>

The 1902 annual general meeting confirmed that the expansion was complete, voted a similar dividend and re-elected William Johnson Galloway and Charles Rought as directors; it also noted that an order for a blowing machine from Carnforth Hematite was being processed.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Engineer |date=7 March 1902 |title=Galloways Limited, Manchester}}</ref>

Charles John Galloway died on 14 March 1904. His address at the time of death was Thorneyholme, Knutsford and his executors were Arthur Walter Galloway, Henry Bessemer Galloway and William Sharp Galloway, his sons.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27702 |page=5082 |date=5 August 1904 }}</ref> He was interred at Mobberley Church.<ref name="MAE1904" />

The Galloway boiler was still being improved around this time. In 1902 the company introduced a [[Engineering:Superheater|superheater]] and in 1910 began to use another design of the same.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89089673925 |author=Inchley, W. |year=1912 |title=Steam boilers and boiler accessories |publisher=Edward Arnold |location=London |pages=268–270 |access-date=27 February 2011}}</ref>

The company was involved in a significant court case in 1912, which went to the highest court of the land and was subsequently cited in other cases, including in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nj.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19410725_0040128.NJ.htm/qx |title=McDonough v. Sears, New Jersey Supreme Court 1941 |publisher=VersusLaw |location=Bellevue, WA |access-date=26 February 2011}}</ref> In 1902 a Mr Noden, employed as a riveter, had an accident at work which resulted in the amputation of a finger. He resumed work at the company in 1903 as a caulker, which involved using a light hammer, but in 1910 was instructed to use a heavy pneumatic hammer. The vibration from this heavier hammer caused his hand to become inflamed and he sought compensation, based on his injury of 1902. A lower court awarded him this compensation but the judgment was overturned on appeal by the Law Lords, who directed that there was no evidence that the 1902 accident was a contributory cause of his injury of 1910 and that, in any event, the latter incident was not actually an accident at all and therefore there was no entitlement to compensation under the terms of the 1897 Workmen's Compensation Act.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924061105585 |title=Stone's Insurance Cases |first1=Gilbert |last1=Stone |first2=Keith Grimble |last2=Groves |year=1914 |volume=2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924061105585/page/n133 832] |publisher=The Reports and Digest Syndicate |location=London |quote=1 K. B. 46; 81 L. J. K. B. 28; 105 L. T. 567; 28 T. L. R. 5; 55 S. J. 838; 5 B. W. C. C. 7; [1912] W. C. Rep. 63—C. A. |access-date=26 February 2011}}</ref>

There had been a previous judgement of some legal significance in 1900, being the matter of Statham vs Galloways Ltd. In this instance an employee had obeyed the order of a superior and as a consequence of doing so had suffered injury. The ruling was that the injured employee had stepped outside the Workmen's Compensation Act by doing something which he knew to be outside the scope of his duties but, nonetheless, obedience was also a duty and that obedience took precedence.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Workmen's Compensation Acts. Being an Annotated Study of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, and the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1900 |author=Adshead, Elliott |page=18 |publisher=Sherratt & Hughes |location=Manchester |year=1903 |isbn=9780543984203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91_B0W2yqFsC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Employers' Liability Acts |volume=2 |page=105 |author=Dresser, Frank F. |publisher=Keefe Davidson |location=St Pauls, Minnesota |year=1908 |url=https://archive.org/stream/employersliabil00dresgoog }}</ref>

The company was placed in receivership on the application of its debenture holders in 1912, despite the business being "much more promising than for some time past". The cause of this was a proposal to issue prior lien debentures to the value of £50,000, a move which would dilute the position of existing debenture holders. It was reported that the company might be restructured in order to resolve this issue.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Engineer |title=Manchester Boilermakers' Affairs |date=31 May 1912}}</ref> <!-- need to follow through on this episode -->

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[[File:Galloways engine - 1419251.jpg|right|thumb|W & J Galloway 600hp [[Engineering:Compound engine|cross-compound steam engine]] with drop-inlet valves and a uniflow low-pressure cylinder. Originally installed at Elm Street Mill, Burnley, in 1926&nbsp;– the last new reciprocating steam engine supplied to a cotton mill&nbsp;– the engine is now preserved at the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) in Manchester.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elm Street Mill Cross-Compound Steam Engine|url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8404874/elm-street-mill-cross-compound-steam-engine-steam-engine|publisher=Science and Industry Museum}}</ref>]]
There was a restructuring of the company on 27 July 1925, a scheme of arrangement being made with shareholders and debenture holders such that the capital was reduced from £330,000 to £198,192.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33083 |page=5986 |date= 11 September 1925 }}</ref> The following year saw the company take on the drawings and patterns of John Musgrave & Sons following the closure of that business.{{sfnp|Hills|1989|page= 267}}

It has been calculated that the number of engineering firms in Manchester more than halved between 1899 and 1939, with the inter-war recession causing particularly severe contraction in the manufacturing spheres of textile machinery, locomotive engineering and boilermaking. The businesses most likely to survive were those that did not rely extensively on exports, on the production of capital goods and on time-served skilled labour&nbsp;– "the newer, more capital-intensive, mass-production, domestic market-oriented engineering firms, employing a large proportion of semi-skilled labour fared better and dominated the industry by 1939."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6g0uNjoXroC |title=Organised capital:employers' associations and industrial relations in northern England 1880–1939 |pages=32–33 |author=McIvor, Arthur J. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-521-89092-2 |access-date=5 March 2011}}</ref>

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The company went into receivership in 1932<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=422-2001293&cid=-1#-1 |title=Henry Pilling Papers |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=2 March 2011}}</ref> and in 1933, Hick, Hargreaves & Co. purchased the complete records, drawings and patterns of the defunct W & J Galloway Limited.<ref>P. W. Pilling, ''Hick Hargreaves and Co., The History of an Engineering Firm c. 1833–1939, a Study with Special Reference to Technological Change and Markets'' (Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1985), pp. 384–444</ref>

==Galloway boiler and Galloway tubes==
{{Anchor|Galloway tube|Galloway boiler}}
In 1848, Galloways patented the ''Galloway tube'', a tapered thermic syphon water-tube inserted in the furnace of a Lancashire boiler.<ref name="MSIM, Lancashire boiler" >{{cite web
  |title=Lancashire Boiler
  |url=http://www.msim.org.uk/media/33871781/lancashireboiler.pdf
  |publisher=Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester
  }}</ref> The tubes are tapered, simply to make their installation through the flue easier.<ref name="Harris, Model Boilers" >{{cite book
  |title=Model Boilers and Boilermaking
  |author=K. N. Harris
  |isbn=0-85242-377-2
  |publisher=MAP
  |year=1974
}}</ref>

{{Anchor|Galloway boiler}}These were followed in 1851 by the ''Galloway boiler''.<ref>UK patent 13532, 1851</ref>{{sfnp|Hills|1989|page= 134}} The flues beyond the two furnaces of the Lancashire boiler were merged into a single wide flue.<ref>{{cite web
  |title=Galloway boiler inner flue
  |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/File:Galloways07.jpg
  |format=photo
  |publisher=Grace's Guide
}}</ref> This widened and flat-topped flue was stayed by the use of many conical vertical Galloway tubes being riveted into it, improving the circulation of water and increasing the heating surface.
{{gallery
|Image:Galloway tubes, section (Heat Engines, 1913).jpg|Part cross-section of a boiler showing Galloway tubes
|File:Galloway boiler ('Modern Electric Practice', Vol 5, 1910).jpg|Galloway boiler, sectioned to show the inner flue
|File:Two Galloway boilers with external furnace (Steam Boilers & Boiler Accessories, 1915, p 65).png|Two Galloway boilers with an external furnace
}}

==Patent applications involving family==
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width: 100%; margin: 1em auto;"
|+ Summary of patent applications and patent provisional protection applications involving the Galloway family announced by ''The London Gazette'' and/or US Patent Office
|-
! App. No. !! App. Date !! For !! First Named !! Second Named !! Voided
|-
| 208<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21410 |page=380 |date=11 February 1853 }}</ref> || 27 January 1853 || improvements in steam engines and boilers  || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21886 |page=1869 |date=23 May 1856 }}</ref>
|-
| 570<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21686 |page=1295 |date=30 March 1855 }}</ref> || 14 March 1855  || certain improvements in balancing or regulating the pressure on the slide-valves of steam-engines || William Galloway || John Galloway ||Failure to pay £100 within 7 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22623 |page=2385 |date=6 May 1862 }}</ref>
|-
| 1132<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21888 |page=1945 |date=30 May 1856 }}</ref> || 14 May 1856 || improvements in machinery for rasping, cutting and chipping dye woods || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22290 |page=2859 |date=22 July 1859 }}</ref>
|-
| 1217<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21890 |page=2029 |date=6 June 1856 }}</ref> || 22 May 1856 || improvements in steam boilers || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22290 |page=2861 |date=22 July 1859 }}</ref>
|-
| 3083<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22076 |page=4556 |date=25 December 1857 }}</ref> || 15 December 1857 || improvements in hydraulic presses || William Galloway || John Galloway||Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22474 |page=308 |date=25 January 1861 }}</ref>
|-
| 801<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22132 |page=2098 |date=30 April 1858 }}</ref> || 14 April 1858 || improvements in apparatus and furnaces for heating, welding, or melting metals, parts of which improvements are applicable to other furnaces || Robert Armstrong || John Galloway || 
|-
| 1407<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22158 |page=3141 |date=2 July 1858 }}</ref> || 22 June 1858 || improvements in machinery for cutting, bruising, chipping, and rasping, and otherwise treating or preparing dye woods and roots, or other vegetable substances || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22533 |page=3159 |date=26 July 1861 }}</ref>
|-
| 2960<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22462 |page=5153 |date=21 December 1860 }}</ref> || 3 December 1860 || improvements in steam boilers || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £100 within 7 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23332 |page=6833 |date=13 December 1867 }}</ref>
|-
| 521<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22490 |page=1202 |date=15 March 1861 }}</ref> || 1 March 1861 || improvements in moulding wheels and other metal articles || William Galloway || John Galloway || 
|-
| 1948<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22541 |page=3480 |date=23 August 1861 }}</ref><ref>*{{Cite news|newspaper=The Mechanics' Magazine |title=Abridged specifications of patents |date=21 February 1862 |page=131 |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJsAAAAAMAAJ |access-date=25 September 2011}}</ref> || 6 August 1861 || improvements in steam boilers and apparatus connected therewith || William Galloway || John Galloway & John William Wilson ||Failure to pay £100 within 7 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23412 |page=4530 |date=14 August 1868 }}</ref>
|-
| 3043<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22685 |page=5941 |date=28 November 1862 }}</ref> || 12 November 1862 || improvements in machinery or apparatus for cutting, shaping, punching, and compressing metals || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £100 within 7 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23557 |page=6231 |date=19 November 1869 }}</ref>
|-
| 2066<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22768 |page=4331 |date=4 September 1863 }}</ref> || 20 August 1863 || improvements in steam boilers and in steam and water gauges<!-- NB&nbsp;— This is the original spelling, not a typo --> ''(sic)'' for the same || William Galloway || John Galloway || 
|-
| 2343<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22776 |page=4749 |date=2 October 1863 }}</ref> || 23 September 1863 ||  improvements in lubricating journals of revolving shafts and axles, and in the apparatus employed for that purpose || William Galloway || John Galloway || Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23170 |page=5346 |date=5 October 1866 }}</ref>
|-
| 3110<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22804 |page=114 |date=8 January 1864 }}</ref> || 10 December 1863 || improvements in presses for the bending of metal plates into the various forms required in naval architecture, and for other purposes || William Galloway || John Galloway* || 
|-
| 1937<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23278 |page=4054 |date=19 July 1867 }}</ref> || 3 July 1867 || improvements in the manufacture of welded tubes and in the apparatus employed for that purpose, which latter are partly applicable to other purposes|| William Galloway || George Plant || 
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| 2815<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23312 |page=5567 |date=18 October 1867 }}</ref> || 7 October 1867 || improvements in looms for weaving || Charles John Galloway ||  || 
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| 591<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23359 |page=1532 |date=6 March 1868 }}</ref> || 22 February 1868 || improvements in wrought iron and stei.'l pilus''[sic]'', pillars, and columns || Charles John Galloway ||  || 
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| 2221<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23410 |page=4403 |date=7 August 1868 }}</ref> || 14 July 1868  || improvements in operating piston valves of steam engines || Charles John Galloway || Charles Herbert Holt  ||  Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23757 |page=3278 |date=21 July 1871 }}</ref>
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| 2253<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23410 |page=4404 |date=7 August 1868 }}</ref> || 17 July 1868  || improvements in boilers for generating steam and in apparatus connected therewith for heating the feed water || Charles John Galloway || Charles Herbert Holt  || Failure to pay £100 within 7 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24230 |page=3730 |date=23 July 1875 }}</ref>
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| 1385<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23497 |page=2834 |date=14 May 1869 }}</ref> || 5 May 1869 || improvements in slide valves and valve gear to piston valves for steam engines || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith  || Failure to pay £50 within 3 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23858 |page=2373 |date=17 May 1872 }}</ref>
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| 247<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23732 |page=2086 |date=28 April 1871 }}</ref> || 30 January 1871 || improvements in valves blowing engines, also applicable to air and other pumps || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith || Failure to pay £100 within 7 years<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24550 |page=649 |date=8 February 1878 }}</ref>
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| 1620<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23976 |page=2461 |date=16 May 1873 }}</ref> || 5 May 1873 || improvements in the slide valves of compound steam engines || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith || 
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| 4036<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24046 |page=6045 |date=19 December 1873 }}</ref> || 8 December 1873 || improvements in steam boilers || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith || 
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| 2514<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24228 |page=3630 |date=16 July 1875 }}</ref> || 13 July 1875 || improvements in steam boilers || Charles John Galloway || Charles Herbert Holt  || Probably {{patent|US|180863}}
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| 2881<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24240 |page=4298 |date=27 August 1875 }}</ref> || 14 August 1875 || improvements to the apparatus for the manufacture and fixing of taper and flanged tubes for boilers  || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith || 
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| 158<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24305 |page=1923 |date=14 March 1876 }}</ref> || 14 January 1876 || improvements in steam boilers  || Charles John Galloway || || {{patent|US|253365}}
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| 2439<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24339 |page=3638 |date=27 June 1876 }}</ref> || 13 June 1876 || improvements in the valve gear of steam and other engines || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith || 
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| 3371<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24507 |page=5424 |date=28 September 1877 }}</ref> || 5 September 1877 || improvements in boiler flues  || Charles John Galloway ||  || 
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| 4617<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24533 |page=7362 |date=21 December 1877 }}</ref> || 6 December 1877 || improvements in pumps for raising or forcing liquids || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith ||  
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| 2410<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24606 |page=4216 |date=19 July 1878 }}</ref> || 18 June 1878 || improvements in apparatus for rivetting the flanges of boiler tubes || Charles John Galloway || John Henry Beckwith ||  
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| || 27 May 1879 ||friction-clutch ||Charles John Galloway ||John Henry Beckwith || {{patent|US|226302}}
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| 7929 || 22 May 1890 ||water-tube boiler || Charles John Galloway ||John Henry Beckwith || {{patent|US|442036}}
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| {{patent|GB|189413362}} || 10 July 1894 || improvements in Galloway boilers || Charles John Galloway || || {{patent|US|537763}}
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| {{patent|GB|189517425}} || 18 September 1895 || improvements in boiler furnaces || Galloways Ltd || Henry Foster ||
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| {{patent|GB|189517500}} || 19 September 1895 || improvements in Corliss valve gear for steam engines || Galloways Ltd || John Henry Beckwith ||
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| {{patent|GB|189628492}} || 12 December 1896 || improvements in apparatus for drilling and rivetting the tube flanges and flue plates of Galloway boilers || Galloways Ltd || John Henry Beckwith ||
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| {{patent|GB|189629086}} || 18 December 1896 || an improvement in shut-off valves || Galloways Ltd || John Henry Beckwith ||
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| {{patent|GB|189807005}} || 22 March 1898 || improvements in compound steam or other fluid pressure engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Foster, Alfred Etchells ||
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| {{patent|GB|189820284}} || 24 September 1898 || an improvement in gear for working Corliss and such like valves || Galloways Ltd || Alfred Etchells ||
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| {{patent|GB|189821414}} || 11 October 1898 || an improvement in multiple flue boilers || Galloways Ltd || William Bayliss ||
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| {{patent|GB|190017470}} || 2 October 1900 || improvements in compound safety and low water valves || Galloways Ltd || William Bayliss ||
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| {{patent|GB|190017469}} || 2 October 1900 || an improvement in valve apparatus for reversing rolling mill and similar engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Foster ||
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| {{patent|GB|190107698}} || 15 April 1901 || an improvement in centrifugal and inertia governors || Galloways Ltd || Herbert Lindley ||
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| {{patent|GB|190328035}} || 21 December 1903 || improvements in steam generators || Galloways Ltd || William Bayliss ||
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| {{patent|GB|190328034}} || 21 December 1903 || improvements in and relating to steam superheaters || Galloways Ltd || William Bayliss ||
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| {{patent|GB|191004774}} || 25 February 1910 || an improved cross-box for connecting the headers of a water tube boiler with the main steam and water drum || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|191009286}} || 16 April 1910 || improvements in steam engine valve chambers || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|191019348 }} || 17 August 1910 || improvements in steam superheaters || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|191102613 }} || 1 February 1911 || improvements in controlling gear for steam driven rolling mill engines, winding engines and the like|| Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|191107296}} || 23 March 1911 || improvements in covers for vessels containing fluid under pressure || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|191409971}} || 22 April 1914 || improvements in reciprocating piston engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling || Failed to pay, voided 22 April 1923;<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32997 |page=8694 |date=28 November 1924 }}</ref> reapplied November 1924, successful 12 February 1925<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33020 |page=1100 |date= 13 February 1925 }}</ref>
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| {{patent|GB|103531}} || 2 January 1916 || improvements in valve gear for reciprocating steam engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|118462}} || 9 December 1916 || improvements in cylinders for uniflow steam engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|116799}} || 30 July 1917 || improvements relating to cylinders of uniflow steam engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|114094}} || 14 September 1917 || an improved automatic valve || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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|  || 27 September 1917 || improvements in and relating to valves for engines || Henry Crowe || || Assigned to Galloways {{patent|US|1367357}}
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| {{patent|GB|123147}} || 11 February 1918 || improved means for connecting the piston to the piston rod of a motive fluid engine || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|127797}} || 6 March 1919 || an improved piston for gas engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|128879}} || 7 March 1919 || improvements relating to exhaust valve boxes of internal combustion engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|142692}} || 12 June 1919 || improvements relating to superheaters || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|152863}} || 19 October 1919 || improvements in or relating to the operation of valves by fluid pressure || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|151198}} || 28 January 1920 || improvements relating to pistons of uniflow steam engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|162913}} || 1 May 1920 || improvements relating to water tube boilers || Galloways Ltd || Ralph John Smith ||
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| {{patent|GB|182159}} || 28 February 1921 || improvements in reciprocating piston engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|184101}} || 24 October 1921 || improvements in steam superheaters || Galloways Ltd || Harold Ashton ||
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| {{patent|GB|229170}} || 23 June 1924 || improvements in balanced valves for steam or other elastic fluid engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|235734}} || 19 July 1924 || improvements relating to steam generators || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|233566}} || 21 July 1924 || improvements in apparatus for accumulating the heat of exhaust steam and for heating water || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|232131}} || 7 November 1924 || improvements relating to the valve gear of steam engines || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|251844}} || 24 September 1925 || improvements relating to pressure regulators || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|277843}} || 28 December 1926 || improvements relating to tubular structures such as superheaters, water heaters, airheaters and the like || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|276215}} || 28 December 1926 || improvements relating to boilers, superheaters, feed water heaters and the like || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling ||
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| {{patent|GB|312815}} || 7 June 1928 || improvements relating to tubular structures such as superheaters, water heaters, airheaters and the like || Galloways Ltd || Henry Pilling, Albert Edward Leek || Addition to 277843
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==See also==
*[[Engineering:Manchester Hydraulic Power|Manchester Hydraulic Power]], an example of Galloways' steam-powered hydraulics work
*William Johnson Galloway (1868–1931), only son of John Galloway junior, was recorded as a director of the company at various dates from 1892<ref name=bios1892>''The General Election&nbsp;– Biographies of Candidates'', ''The Times'', 1 July 1892, p.5</ref> to 1905.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000548527 |publisher=Whittaker |location=London |edition=81st issue, 73rd year |page=252 |access-date=28 February 2011}}</ref> His directorship may have extended before and after these years.
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==References==
===Notes===
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===Bibliography===
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Chaloner |editor1-first=W. H. |editor2-last=Farnie |editor2-first=D. A. |editor3-last=Henderson |editor3-first=W. O. |title=Industry and Innovation: Selected Essays of W.H. Chaloner| publisher=Routledge |year=1990 |isbn=0-7146-3335-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqXjvZoUidkC |ref=Chaloner }}
*{{cite book | title=An Autobiography | last1=Bessemer |first1=Sir Henry |year=1905 |publisher=Engineering |location=London |url=https://archive.org/stream/sirhenrybessemer00bessuoft |ref=Bessemer}}
*{{book-Hills-Power from Steam}}
*{{cite book |last1=Birse|first1=Ronald M. |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=OUP |location=Oxford |date=2011|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45635 |ref=ODNB}} {{ODNBsub}}
* {{cite journal |last=Rendell |first=Samuel |year=1906 |title=The Steam Locomotive Fifty Years Ago and Now |journal=Transactions of the Manchester Association of Engineers |issue=January–March |url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionsjan00engigoog | ref=MAE1906}}

==External links==
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/9616772154/in/set-72157635295470919/  "Galloways, Ardwick" Frank Wightman (1979) Manchester Archives+]
* [http://www.grimshaworigin.org/ManchesterIndustrialCity.htm Manchester, the World's First Industrial City]
* [http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/Galloways Graces Guide 'Galloways']
* [http://www.papplewickpumpingstation.co.uk/boilers.htm Boilers at the Papplewick Pumping Station]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022152650/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/705595 Detail] of 1900 Mitchell and Kenyon film of Galloways employees outside Hyde Road factory
* [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-engms1504 W & J Galloway & Sons Letter Books] (typescript copies) at the John Rylands Library, Manchester.


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