Collis and Stace
of Pelican Foundry, Rochester, Kent
1898 'NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned Joseph Collis and Joseph Stace carrying on business as Engineers and Boiler Makers Iron and Brass Founders at Strood Iron Works, Rochester, in the county of Kent under the style or firm of Collis and Stace has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the date hereof.— Dated this thirteenth day of July 1898. JOSH. COLLIS. JOSEPH STACE.'[1]
Joseph Collis started as a retail ironmonger in 1777. By 1865 he was a wholesaler specialising in zinc, iron, tinplate and locksmithery. By 1870, he and his partner Joseph Stace took over the Pelican Foundry and manufactured structural ironwork, toilet cisterns and manhole covers.[2]
1895 The foundry business of Collis and Stace was purchased by Aveling and Porter along with the Pelican Yard.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette, 15 July 1898
- ↑ Wikipedia - Strood
- ↑ [1] Wikipedia - Aveling and Porter