Taylor, Struve, Eaton and Price
became Taylor and Sons
of Briton Ferry and Neath
Henry Taylor (1845-1909) started in business on his own. Later he took into partnership some of the younger Prices of Neath Abbey, who continued as partners until 1896, when the firm of Taylor, Struve, Eaton and Price was dissolved.[1]
1893 Produced a compound engine for the Morriston Tin Plate Co.
1894 'THE TINPLATE TRADE.
NEW ENGINE AND MILLS AT EAGLE WORKS, NEATH.
SUCCESSFUL START.
It is gratifying that while the tinplate trade is its present deplorable condition that some of those engaged in it already look forward to better times. This hopeful attitude was evidenced by the starting on Saturday afternoon of a 500 horse power engine and mills at the Eagle Tinplate Works, Neath. These works were built about three years ago (running three mills), and so well are they laid out, and so admirably are they managed that they have not only been kept at full swing all through the crisis of the McKinley Tariff. but the prospects have appeared so promising to the directors and shareholders generally that it was decided at the beginning of 1894 to increase the works and plant by an additional four mills. On Saturday the engine and mills were formally started ....The engine is a compound tandem of 530 indicated horse power, with cylinders 28 inches, and 50 inches respectively, and with a stroke of 4 feet. It runs at 40 revolutions per minute. The valves on both high and low pressure cylinders are of the Cornish equilibrium type ; those of the high pressure being automatically regulated by the trip gear introduced so successfully for tin mill engines by the makers. Messsrs. Taylor, Struve, Eaton, and Price of Neath and Britonferry. Mr C. Edwin Price has made this class of engine and cut off gear his special study for a considerable time, and the firm named have at present several orders for new engines, and alterations to old ones on the lines of the engine now under notice. The start of the engine on Saturday was a complete success, the company of gentlemen who witnessed it expressing astonishment at the steadiness with which the speed is kept up. Nor were the spectators sparing with their warm congratulations to Messrs H. F Taylor and C. E. Price as representing the makers. Mr. T. Powell. J.P., Neath, who until within the last few years carried on a very extensive engineering works at Rouen, France, and whose name is as familiar on the Continent as that of any of the greatest engineers, was particularly struck with the engine and valve gear, ....' [2]
1896 Henry Francis Taylor, William Peddie Struve and Robert William Phillips Eaton continued the business of General Manufacturing Engineers at Briton Ferry under the style of Taylor Struve and Co. and Joseph Henry Price and Charles Edwin Price continued the business of Iron and Brass Founders at Neath under the style of Price and Co.[3]