Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

James Williams (Bath)

From Graces Guide

of Pickwick Iron Works, Broad Quay, Bath

  • Advertised as a manufacturer of every description of steam engines, machinery and machine tools, lathes, planes, slotting, punching, shearing, grooving, wheel-cutting, drilling and general shaping machines, stocks and dies, surface plates and straight edges. 'JW's high pressure pendulous steam engine is the simplest ever contrived, having but three working joints'. [1]
  • Reference to correspondence concerning an engine made and supplied by Pickwick Iron Works, Bath to the Temple Cloud Coalworks, Somerset [2]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Exposition Universelle, 1855: Catalogue of the Works Exhibited at the British Section of the Exhibition
  2. [2] National Archives Papers of the Hippisley Family of Ston Easton