Balme Brothers and Earnshaw
of Stead Street Iron Works, Halifax
1868 Partnership dissolved: BALME, BALME and EARNSHAW, Halifax, machine tool makers (so far as regards Alfred Balme).[1]
1868 Partnership dissolved: Jonas Balme, Alfred Balme, and Abraham Earnshaw, Halifax, Yorkshire, machine tool makers; so far as regards Alfred Balme.[2]
1870 Partnership dissolved: BALME, EARNSHAW and BARRETT, Halifax, machine tool makers (so far as regards Heap Barrett) [3]
1883 Partnership dissolved: Abraham Earnshaw and Joseph Balme, engineers, Crown Works, Booth Town, Halifax.[4]. Note: See also A. Earnshaw and Sons.
1891 'THE BANKRUPTCY ACTS, 1883 AND 1890. RECEIVING ORDERS. ..... Joseph Balme and John Dobson, trading as Joseph Balme and Co., Water-lane, Halifax, tool makers.'[5]