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Richard Tangye

Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye (24 November 1833 – 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment.

Sir
Richard Trevithick Tangye

(1833-11-24)24 November 1833

Illogan, Cornwall, England

14 October 1906(1906-10-14) (aged 72)

Sidcot School

Engineer

Mechanical engineer

After death[edit]

After the deaths of Richard (1906) and George (1920), with the family owning the majority of shares, their sons entered the business.[6] In 1919, the company started production of large-scale industrial diesel engines, pumps and hydraulic equipment. Engine production was stopped after World War II, with the company concentrating on hydraulic pumps, valves and related systems.

Publications[edit]

Tangye wrote an autobiography, One and All (1889). The only modern study is Sir Richard Tangye 1833-1914: A Cornish Entrepreneur in Victorian Birmingham (2015) by Stephen Roberts.

Tangye vertical engine on display at the Black Country Living Museum.

Tangye vertical engine on display at the Black Country Living Museum.

Tangye single-cylinder horizontal steam engine from 1890, at Broomy Hill Waterworks Museum.

Tangye single-cylinder horizontal steam engine from 1890, at Broomy Hill Waterworks Museum.

The various engines had an elegance as well as being functional. Here are some examples in various museums.

Waterhouse, Rachel (1957). A Hundred Years of Engineering Craftmanship. Birmingham, London: Tangyes Limited.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tangye, Sir Richard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 398.

public domain

article by W. B. Owen, 'Tangye, Sir Richard (1833–1906)', rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 8 June 2008).

ODNB

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Richard Tangye

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Richard Tangye

Timeline of Tangye's Ltd from gracesguide.co.uk