Midhurst Brickworks

At the brickworks, a 25.9 m (85 ft) high chimney was erected and £30,000 was spent on new plant, including an excavator and locomotive, two Sutcliffe Duplex brick presses, two new 160 psi autoclaves and a Lancashire boiler.

[3] The company now concentrated on the manufacture of sand-lime bricks, in which damp sand and slaked lime (8% of the content) were mixed before being poured into moulds and heated under pressure in an autoclave.

[3] The advertisement claimed that "the texture resists the chemical erosion of atmospheric acids and gives no hold for smoky deposits.

This was not a success, but fortunately Cloke had retained a substantial holding of the company's shares, thus preventing the flotation from being a failure.

[1] At the same time, the company expanded the works, crossing over the former railbed to open a new sand pit.

The sand was extracted by a Ruston steam navvy and loaded into small wagons to be towed by engine to the manufacturing plant.

[7] The mixing process lasted about 30 minutes after which the slaked mixture would be transferred through an edge runner mill to the brick presses.

[6] The middle level served the active sand pits, transporting material to the kilns.

This level was operated by another 4-wheel Simplex petrol locomotive, works number 8981, now at the Old Kiln Light Railway.

[6] The upper level carried waste back from the kiln to reclaim disused pits.

[9] The Midhurst White brick suffered from excessive weathering especially in coastal areas, and as a result houses built with them needed to be rendered.

[10] The bricks were used in the light wells of Battersea Power Station,[11] and at Broadcasting House and the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects.