Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,238 pages of information and 244,492 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.
1847 Insolvent. '...John Maxton, Founder, Leith Walk Foundry, Edinburgh, has applied, with the requisite concurrence of his Creditors, to the Lord Ordinary for a discharge under the sequestration of his estates...'[1]
The business was taken over by Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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