Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 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.
of the Phoenix Foundry, Lancaster
1850 The Foundry was acquired by Edmund Sharpe
1874 Exhibited one of Cushell's patent self-acting dampers[1]
1879 Matthew Henry Simpson became managing partner of Sharpe, Simpson and Co
1886 The partnership with Francis Sharpe was dissolved; Francis Sharpe continued the business[2]
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