Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Taylor and Ford

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1857 The premises of James Northam bought by Taylor and Ford. 'Northam's Iron and Brass Foundry, Commercial Road, Exeter.....Messrs. Taylor and Ford beg to inform the public that they have purchased from the Executors of the late Mr. James Northam the above extensive and well-known Premises, together with the whole of the valuable Working Plant, Patterns, Stock-in-Trade, &c.'[1]

1859 Partnership dissolved. '...the undersigned, Christopher Mardon Taylor and William Ford, as Ironfounders, in the city of Exeter, has been dissolved by mutual consent, as from this 20th day of August, 1859; and that all debts due to and from the said partnership are to be received and paid by the said Christopher Mardon Taylor, by whom alone the business will in future be conducted...'[2]

1866 C. M. Taylor takes Alfred Bodley into partnership.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Exeter Flying Post - Thursday 25 June 1857
  2. The London Gazette Publication date:26 August 1859 Issue:22301 Page:3223
  3. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 11 May 1866