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Samuel Tyzack and Co

From Graces Guide

of Monkwearmouth Iron and Steel Works, Fulwell Road, Sunderland

1857 Company established.

1886 Dissolution of the Partnership between William Thackray, William Branfoot, Sarah Spence Tyzack, Samuel Tyzack, William George Colquhoun Wylde, and William Thackray the younger, trading under the style or firm of Samuel Tyzack and Company, at Monkwearmouth, in the borough of Sunderland, as Iron Manufacturers, so far as regards the said William Thackray, who retires as from the 1st day of October last; and that the business will in future be carried on by the remaining partners[1]

1889 The company was registered on 5 December, to take over the iron manufacturing business of the firm of the same name. [2]

1914 Iron and steel manufacturers. Specialities: shipbuilding material and bars and rivets. Employees 400 to 500. [3] Directors; F. Stobart (Chairman), R. A. Bartram, J. Dickinson, W. Thackray (Managing Director), and W. G. C. Wylde (Secretary).

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 22 April, 1887
  2. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  3. 1914 Whitakers Red Book