Fletcher and Spencer
On the completion of the South Wales Railway he became partner in London in
1851 Mr. John Frederick Spencer and Mr Lavington Evans Fletcher, who had both been pupils at Reading, formed a partnership as consulting engineers in London. They designed several iron screw steamers, and prepared plans for the engines and boilers, with a special view to economy of fuel.
1855 Partnership changed. '...the Partnership between the undersigned, Lavington Evans Fletcher and John Frederick Spencer, in the business of Marine Engineers and Surveyors, at No. 22, Cannon-street, in the city of London, and elsewhere, under the firm of Fletcher and Spencer, was this day dissolved by mutual consent; and in future the business will he carried on by the said Lavington Evans Fletcher on his separate account...'[1]