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.

Vulcan Iron Foundry (Liverpool)

From Graces Guide

1839 Advert: 'To be Sold ... (By order of the assignees of P. Petrie, a bankrupt), on the premises, the Vulcan Iron Foundry, North Shore, Liverpool .... THE manufactured and un-manufactured STOCK-IN-TRADE, together with the greater part of the highly valuable MACHINERY, Utensils, and Working Tools, the whole of which are of the best quality, constructed on the most approved pricnciples, and in excellent condition.
The Effects comprise a capital Planing Machine, by Collier, of Salford; superior Cutting Lathe, by Whitworth; a number of excellent double and single Power Lathes, of various sizes, seven inches to fifteen inches; Drilling and Punching Machines; Screwing Machines, with taps and dies; a ten-horse Steam Engine, nearly complete; a Rope Machine, Loam Carriages, several Iron Waggons, various Railway Carriage and other Wheels, Boiler, several pair of Circular and Smiths' Bellows, large Anvils and Vices, .... Pulley, Bevil, and Spur Wheels; Cast Steel, of various sizes, a variety of Wood Patterns, of the most improved designes, for Steam Engines of various power and other Machines, Ships' Windlasses, Moulds, Wheels, Lathes, &c. .....' [1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Bolton Chronicle - Saturday 7 December 1839