Fairbairn and Wells
of Hardman Street, Deansgate, Manchester; presumably the business of Charles Fairbairn and Matthew Wells.
Patented machines for producing screw threads by rolling (cold rolling for diameters less than 0.5", hot for larger diameters).[1]. Several machines had been operating at the works of the New Russia Co, Queen Victoria Street. Fairbairn & Wells patented their first such machine in 1871.
1886 Advert: 'A New Departure in the formation of STEEL PROJECTILES, Balls, &c.
FAIRBAIRN & WELLS’ PATENT FORGING MACHINES. Secured by Patents dated 1871,1875,1877, & 1880 in England, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Austria, United States, & Canada.
By our Patent Forging Machines, STEEL PROJECTILES, any shape or Size, are produced with an accuracy and economy hitherto unattainable; also Balls (perfect spheres). The above are forged at one process very rapidly and under great pressure, rendering the metal dense and ductile, so hardened and tempered as to pierce thick iron or steel plates.
MACHINES CAN BE SEEN WORKING BY GIVING US A DAY’S NOTICE. SAMPLES ON APPLICATION.
61 HARDMAN STREET, DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER.
Applications for Licences to use our Patent Machines, or for the Sale of our Patents, to be addressed to the Patentees, FAIRBAIRN and WELLS, 61 Hardman Street, Deansgate, Manchester, or to the Solicitors, Messrs. PAYNE, GALLOWAY, and PAYNE, Brazennose Street, Manchester, or to the Patent Agents, Messrs. ABEL and IMRAY, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.' [2]
1887 C. Fairbairn of Sale, Cheshire, and M. Wells of Manchester, patented apparatus for forging - by rollers - conoidal projectiles and other articles of circular transverse section. Patent No. 2499, 17 February 1887.