of Cleveland Safe and Lock Works, Church Lane, Wolverhampton, bankers' engineers.
1840 Business established by George Price; George was a printer and stationer[1]
1849 "General stationery warehouse, Cleveland Street, Wolverhampton. Mary Eyre (late G. Price), engraver, printer, lithographer, bookbinder, stationers, paper dealer, etc. begs respectfully to inform the customers and friends of her brother, GEORGE (Price) ..."[2]
1851 George Price described himself as "Auctioneer, appraiser, general agent, accountant and nurseryman" in the 1851 census.
1855 George Price patented improvements in safe design and construction[3]
1858 Advertisement: 'GEORGE PRICE, BOILER MAKER, PATENTEE AND MANUFACTURER, WROUGHT-IRON FIRE AND THIEF-PROOF SAFES, IRON DOORS AND FRAMES, ORNAMENTAL PALISADES AND GATES, BUILDERS' IRONWORK, &c., CLEVELAND SAFE WORKS, WOLVERHAMPTON.
The ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT is under the management of Mr. W. DAWES, C.E., for five years Chief Engineer to the Coalbrookdale Company, and Inventor of the Equilibrium Piston for Horizontal Steam Engines.
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. SPECIFICATIONS, and ESTIMATES prepared for Steam Engines, Iron Roofs, Hydraulic Presses, Suspension and Girder Bridges, and every description of Wrought and Cast Ironwork.
MIDLAND COUNTIES AGENCY OFFICE for the SALE and PURCHASE of MANUFACTURERS' and IRONMASTERS' BUSINESSES and WORKS, STEAM ENGINES, MACHINERY, BOILERS, &c. GEORGE PRICE, AUCTIONEER AND MACHINERY VALUER.'[4]
1860 Advertisement. Treble Patent Safes.[5]
1867 Advertisement. 'GEORGE PRICE, Banker’s and Jeweller’s Safe Maker, Cleveland Safe and Lock Works, Wolverhampton, and 86, Queen Street, Cheapside, London'[6]
c.1877 George Price, a well known lock and safe maker in Cleveland Street, produced a range of bicycles. The more expensive model was the London; the cheaper model Liverpool sold for £9.10s[7]
1886 NEW COMPANIES. George Price’s Safe, Lock, and Engineering Company Limited. — This is the conversion to a company of the business of iron safe manufacturer and patentee carried on by Mr. George Price, of Cleveland ..[8]
1888 BY an Order of Mr. Justice Stirling ..., dated the 14th of April, 1888, upon the petition of Jane Price, late of Larches-lane, Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, but then residing temporarily at the house of William Benson, of Rock Cliff, Rockey-lane, Thornton, near Eccles, in the county of Lancaster, Widow, and Herbert Price Lavender, of Union-street, Wednesbury, in the said county of Stafford, Engineer, it was ordered that the said George Price's Safe Lock and Engineering Company Limited be wound up by this Court, under the provisions of the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867[9]
1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail [10]
1914 Under the style George Prices Safe Co the company manufactured safes, steel doors, strong rooms, tubular and steel plate shelving and were general bankers' engineers. Specialities: patent safe and strong room doors, patent self-locking safe and strong room doors, patent adjustable tubular steel shelving for strong rooms for insurance companies etc. [11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1841 census
- ↑ Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser 28 February 1849
- ↑ The Engineer 1857/11/13
- ↑ Birmingham Journal, 20 March 1858
- ↑ Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser - Wednesday 06 June 1860
- ↑ Worcester Journal - Saturday 23 March 1867
- ↑ Prices Cycles[1]
- ↑ Iron Trade Circular (Rylands') and Hardware Weekly Messenger 02 October 1886
- ↑ The London Gazette 24 April 1888
- ↑ Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Advertisers
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book