Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 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.
of Finchdean, Horndean
Iron founders and agricultural machinists.
1855 John Canning selling steam engines from Clayton and Shuttleworth.[1]
1857 J. Canning advertising his one-horse plough.[2]
1919 John Stebbing Cannings sold the business to John Stratford Cannings.[3]
1937 Sale of Finchdean Iron Works.[4]
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