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 162,259 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.

Tonge and Taggart

From Graces Guide
Base of sewer stink pipe.

Tonge and Taggart of Windmill Lane, the South City Foundry at 41 Bishop St. and, latterly, East Wall, Dublin

1869 Company established.

Famed today for its manhole covers, inscribed with the company name and/or the logo “Cast in the South City Foundry”.[1]

1932 Death of Thomas Tonge.[2]

1987 In liquidation.[3]

1989 Sale of plant and equipment at the factory.[4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Leading Manufacturing Firms in 1920s Dublin by Frank Barry, Trinity College Dublin, September 2017
  2. Thomas Tonge
  3. Evening Herald (Dublin) - Wednesday 16 December 1987
  4. Irish Independent - Thursday 19 October 1989