Berkhamsted trials

The name Bridgewater is familiar not only to local people, but in the wider world also. It was Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who outshone all his predecessors and ensured that the name would not be forgotten.

Born in , he was the second surviving son of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater. Francis was a dull-witted and sickly lad, mostly left to the company of the servants. His elder brother John inherited the title in but died of consumption three years later, leaving Francis, a boy of twelve, to become the 3rd Duke.

His mother sought to have the inheritance set aside on the grounds of diminished intellect, but following a smattering of education and a European tour, Francis emerged to develop his estates and business interests in the North West of England. His tomb and memorial designed by Westmacott are in Little Gaddesden Church. John William, 7th Earl of Bridgwater, inherited Ashridge from the Canal Duke in and employed Richard Westmacott, a fashionable sculptor in the early 19th century, to embellish the new building erected there by James Wyatt.

His commission was to provide effigies, suitably Gothic in style, to represent the Royal Plantagenets whose home was once in BerkhamstedCastle.

Their cousins, the Brownlow family, then inherited the estate. It was the 3rd Earl Brownlow and Lady Adelaide who controlled the estate in its heyday from to That was a period in which the entire estate was managed in a highly business-like manner, and when the house itself was the scene of much entertaining and many society occasions.

Some events were attended by royalty, including the Shah of Persia in Roads were built, churches restored, farms modernised and tree planting undertaken. Above all, he provided work for as many as people.

His beloved wife Adelaide died in His own death in brought dramatic changes to Ashridge, changes that transformed the estate throughout the 20th century. We have a large number of tools that can be used for pressing development samples and an in house machine shop for machining the samples to size. If necessary the samples can be coated as well. This allows engineers to test different size samples relatively easily and, if necessary, vary the strength of the magnets simply by changing the powder loading in the magnets.

This is particularly useful for sensor or encoder magnets where the magnetic field needs to be within a specific range of values. If the samples require multi-pole magnetising, although we also have a large number of magnetising fixtures it is unlikely that they will be suitable for trials.

Multi-pole magnetising fixtures have to be designed for each specific magnet size and it is not sensible to try and magnetise a magnet in a fixture that has been designed for a larger size magnet. However, we can build prototype magnetising fixtures for development purposes.

These prototypes can be designed simply as prototypes or as development fixtures that can be upgraded for production use at a later date. At any stage in the development process our engineers can offer advice on material selection, or design help with magnetic field calculations. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.