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1789 or 1791 Company founded by William Bedington
1835 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between William Bedington, George Tonks, and William Tonks, under the firm of Bedington, Tonks, and Co. Brass-Founders, in Cheapside, in the Parish of Aston, near Birmingham, is this day dissolved, as far as relates to the said George Tonks...'[1]
Became William Tonks and Sons
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