Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Cox, Farley and Co

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Cox, Farley and Co, The Docks, Falmouth

1873 Mechanical engineers and metal founders[1].

1878 Started shipbuilding

1880 Partnership change. '...the Partnership formerly existing between us the undersigned, Joseph Goodenough Cox, Henry Herbert Cox, and Ephraim Charles Farley, as Engineers and Ironfounders. carrying on business at Falmouth, in the county of Cornwall, under the style or firm of Cox, Farley, and Company, has been dissolved, by mutual consent...'[2]

By 1883 the company was operating as shipbuilders under the name Cox and Co.[3].

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Sources of Information

  1. Post Office Cornwall Directory, 1873
  2. [The London Gazette Publication date:6 February 1880 Issue:24809 Page:586]
  3. Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1883