is now considered a gem of Spanish industrial heritage. The National Railway Museum at Lousado , Portugal, also boasts a reputation as a precious relic of Portuguese railway history. The extensive rolling [...] eight railway companies in six countries, spans the nine decades between 1875 and 1965 and includes Portugal's oldest narrow-gauge engine, the CF PPV 6, which was imported from England in 1874. The museum's
industrial heritage will be shared by ERIH Portugal on its newly created social media profiles on Facebook and Instagram. ERIH Portugal on Facebook ERIH Portugal on Instagram [...] the symposium is the partly still popular assumption that the evidence of the industrial age in Portugal is a forgotten heritage or a curiosity of a bygone era. To challenge this image, the conference
Alexandra Alves presents an original project, called “Industrial Tourism” and launched in 2012, that makes S. João da Madeira, a Portuguese city of approximately 22,500 inhabitants, a pioneer in the d
contemporary testimonies of a traditionally industralised region not far from Porto in northern Portugal. Each operator will give a short presentation on what they have to offer. In particular, TrattoPunto
Portugal’s first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but
mattresses, companies specialized in paper and textile labels, as well as the only pencil factory in Portugal, are further highlights of the varied tour program.
cars, partly used for very specific purposes. Among other things, visitors can see the CF PPV 6, Portugal's oldest narrow gauge engine built in England in 1874. Close to it a railcar containing an ambulance
In eighteenth-century Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with his brother João Diogo (originally John James, 1747–1826). Stephens [...] making window glass and some tableware. In 1773 Stephens was awarded the monopoly to supply glass for Portugal and its colonies. Exceptionally for this period, Stephens provided a school, medical care, pensions [...] left to the Portuguese government. Marinha Grande is still the leading centre for glassmaking in Portugal. The mansion Palácio Stephens is a museum of the glass industry.
Barreiro, across the Tagus estuary from Lisbon, which would become the largest industrial complex in Portugal. Da Silva built the facilities to create a town and developed social provision for workers and their [...] Conde de Óbidos (later named Lisnave). By the 1930s, the CUF group had factories in many parts of Portugal and employed 16,000 people in its diverse enterprises. CUF continued to expand and be run by da
Manuel Pinto de Azevedo became one of the leading industrialists and entrepreneurs of Portugal in the mid-twentieth century. He worked his way up from a position as a factory employee to build a group [...] businesses in the region around Porto. Pinto de Azevedo was born in the Bonfim district of Porto, Portugal’s second city. He attended technical school and began work in the textile industry in 1894. He rose [...] had been established in 1905 but grew under its new owners to become the largest cotton factory in Portugal. He acquired two more textile factories to the north of Porto in 1928, at Ermesinde and Rio Tinto
Southwark, London, for his mechanical projects. He began supplying customers in Spain, France and Portugal. Among his innovations he pioneered the use of ball-bearings and the gantry crane. Nevertheless
Wegner and Company with Iver Albert Juel. He undertook consular work in Norway for the Kingdom of Portugal and the cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen until his death.
Fèteira in the production of files and rasps. Fèteira built up his company at Vieira de Leiria in Portugal and it still exists there, exporting its products globally. Files and rasps of different kinds are
maintenance of locomotives. Some of the first orders were for locomotives for railways in Sweden, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. Beyer worked closed with Hermann Ludwig Lange (1837-92), also a native of Plauen
associations, and travelled through Denmark to Germany, Carinthia, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and England, before returning to Sweden in 1755 through the Low Countries. He assumed
England in 1863, to Italy in 1860, to Norway and Sweden in 1879, to Greece in 1889 and to Spain and Portugal in 1898, by which time the company’s coverage was global, and included guides to the Near East,
Switzerland, Chamony and the Italian Lakes in 1870, and subsequently guides to France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Rhineland, the Ottoman Empire and India. Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great
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emergence of the capitalist factory economy is not yet clear. Colonial powers such as France and Portugal also shipped millions of Africans across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to the highly profitable
