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 164,359 pages of information and 246,083 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.

Wood and Fisher

From Graces Guide

J. Wood and D. Fisher of Lambeth

1841 Sale notice: 'To Engineers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Others .... on the premises, No. 2, high-street, Lambeth, near the Palace, in consequence of Messrs. Wood and Fisher removing to larger premises, A Four-horse power High-pressure Steam Engine, wrought-iron cylindrical boiler; a capital engine-turning lathe, 14 feet long, with 15-inch head stock, and screw-cutting gear, and powerful slide-rest, a highly-finished town-made self-acting slide lathe and screw-cutting gear, 6 feet long; a powerful vertical drilling machine with moveable table, shaft, &c.; a self-acting slide lathe for screw-cutting; a powerful boring mill, capable of boring 22-inch diameter; 5 slide turning-lathes, with iron beds, from 10 to 6 feet; rose engine lathe, steel turning tools, 50 feet shafting, 20 rigger and shaft wheels, single-purchase crab crane, forge bellows, tools, &c.— .....' [1]

1842 Partnership dissolved.

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Sources of Information

  1. Morning Herald (London) - Tuesday 23 November 1841