Isca Foundry and Engineering Co
of Newport, Monmouth.; of 10 Bush Lane, Cannon, Street, London, EC.
See Richard Laybourne and his sons Arthur Harrison Laybourne and Richard Charles Talbot Laybourne
1857 The Isca Foundry Company. Engineers, Boiler-Makers, Railway Wagon Builders. Newport Monmouthshire. N.B. Switches, Points and Crossings, Railway Iron Work and General Repairs.[1]
1859 'NEWPORT. FATAL ACCIDENT. —On Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, an accident of a most shocking character took place at the Isca Foundry, Pillgwenlly, by which a young man named William Chandler, 26 years of age, and a native of Reading, in Berkshire, lost his life. Having got entangled in the fly-wheel of the machinery, his right arm was torn from his body, and broken between the wrist and the elbow ; his head was cut right through and otherwise dreadfully crushed, with every other part of his body, especially his legs and feet, which were smashed horribly.'[2]
1862 Patent. '943. And Robert Moore Toogood and John Laybourne, both of Newport, in the county of Monmouth, Engineers, trading as the "Isca Foundry Company," have given the like notice in respect of the invention of "an improvement in railway crossings."'[3]
1865 Contract to build the new landing pier at Weston-super-Mere.[4]
1882 Supplied the cast iron plates and other ironwork for Hereford water tower. Defects and delays reported at great length[5]
1922 Manufacture of switches and crossings, turntables, water cranes, tanks, signals, roofs and bridges contractors' and colliery plant, castings.
Location: The foundry was located in the Pillgwenlly area of the City of Newport. For location, seen item 23 on Map 2 in Newport Engineering Works - Location Map