In 1812 the machine was adopted by the Bank of Ireland, and he received the appointment of engineer and chief engraver.
[2] In 1837 Oldham entered the service of the Bank of England, where he introduced improvements in the machinery for printing and numbering banknotes.
4249), the paddles being placed on a shaft across the ship, and caused to revolve, being feathered by an adaptation of the gearing used in the former patent.
His eldest son, Thomas Oldham (1801–1851), succeeded to his father's place at the bank.
He was elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 2 March 1841, and in 1842 he read a paper "On the Introduction of Letterpress Printing for numbering and dating the Notes of the Bank of England" (Proceedings, 1842, p. 166), and in the following year he contributed "A Description of the Automatic Balance at the Bank of England invented by W. Cotton" (Proceedings, 1843, p. 121).