Thomas and Taylor
of Stockport and London
Laundry engineers
1877 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Edward Taylor, William Edward Thomas, and George Little, in the business of engineers and Machinists, carried on at Stockport, Manchester, and Salford, under the style or firm of Thomas and Taylor, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as from the 31st December, 1876, so far as regards the said George Little, who then retired from the concern...'[1]
1881 Partnership liquidation. '... Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by William Edward Thomas, Edward Taylor, and James Fielding, all of Nos. 80 and 82, Lower Hillgate, Stockport, in the county of Chester, of No. 99, Fonthill-road, Finsbury Park, in the county of Middlesex, and of Nos. 16,18, and 20, Chapel-street, Salford, in the county of Lancaster, formerly also of Ro, 6, Market-street, in, the city of Manchester, Laundry and Dairy Engineers and Machine Makers, and Laundrymen, carrying on business in copartnership together under the style or firm of Thomas and Taylor, the said William Edward Thomas residing at No. 161, Hall-street, Stockport aforesaid, the said Edward Taylor residing at No. 144, Shaw-heath, Stockport aforesaid, and the said James Fielding residing at Goyt-crescent, Brinnington, Stockport aforesaid...'[2]