The company produced large steam-driven engines for textile mills in Oldham and exported to India, Holland and Brazil.
[1] Buckley & Taylor started business in 1861 to manufacture beam, horizontal and vertical mill engines and gearing.
Both men were engineers, though it was Taylor who dealt with the practical details, and Buckley conducted the commercial side of the business.
The design was conservative, using slide valves and spur wheel gear drive transmission.
An example of such an engine was the 2,000-ihp, horizontal twin tandem triple expansion delivered to Pearl Mill in 1892.
[1] Buckley & Taylor expanded in India sometime in 1865 after it partnered with Platt Bros to build drives and spinning machines for a jute mill in Bombay and, later, in Narayanganj.
They provided a marine type vertical triple expansion engines to Regent Mill, Failsworth, in 1906.
In Minas Gerais, for example, its engines were preferred by these establishments prior to World War I before the transition to electricity in the 1920s.
[5] Between 1861 and 1926 Buckley & Taylor built more than 200 mill engines with a total capacity of over 160,000 ihp.