Cowie and Eriksson
From Graces Guide
This was an engineering and shipbuilding company that operated in Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland from 1842.
The company was started in 1842, when Swedish chief engineer Anders Thalus Eriksson and Scottish engineer David Cowie got a permit to start a foundry and engineering works in Turku. The men had worked before in Stockholm for Samuel Owen who had built the first steam engines of Sweden.
They built the first steam engine in Finland in 1850
William Crichton became the owner in 1862 and the company was named W:m Crichton & C:o. See Wm. Crichton and Co (Finland).
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