User:Rodsmith071152/Ew smith engineering coffs harbour

EW Smith Engineering was an important early general engineering firm in servicing the development of the timber industry on the north coast of NSW Australia. It was located at the corner of High Street and Edinburgh Street Coff's Harbour Jetty (NSW Australia) opposite the Coffs Harbour High School. The business developed many new pieces of machinery and obtained patents for a 3 cylinder quick reversing steam engine to drive the machinery installed in many local and overseas mills. The business included a foundary and was founded and operated by Edward William Smith its founder and a local pioneer of the timber industry on the north coast of NSW. He was a steam engineer who had migrated from Barrow-in-Furness in the UK around 1908. He had two sons Edward (1911)and Spencer (1927)who carried on the business when Edward snr retired in the late 1950's early 1960's. The firm stopped trading in about 1970. It specialised in servicing the needs of the sawmilling industry. A working example of one of the firms vertical frame saws is at Timbertown at Wauchope in NSW.