Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,197 pages of information and 249,772 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.
1856 'An immense number of people have been attracted during the past week to the shop of Messrs. Rowe and Trenery, ironmongers, High-street, to see a splendid model of a locomotive engine and tender which was exhibited in the Crystal Palace of 1851, and for which the maker, James Hinitt, refused the sum of 150l. He received a medal.' [1]
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