Cox and Co
Cox and Co, of Falmouth Dock Ironworks, Falmouth, shipbuilders.
1878 Started shipbuilding in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, trading under the name Cox, Farley and Co
From 1878 the yard built tugs, naval water-boats, trawlers, sloops and several Amazon paddle steamers.
By 1883 the company was operating as Cox and Co[1].
1890 Built three ships for the laying and raising of mines. Article and illustration in 'The Engineer'
1894 Mining Steamer built. Drawings in The Engineer. [2]
1901 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Joseph Goodenough Cox, Henry Herbert Cox, Herbert Henry Cox, and Walter Reseigh Cox, carrying on business as Engineers and Shipbuilders, at Falmouth, in the county of Cornwall, under the style or firm of Cox and Co., has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 30th day of June, 1901. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Herbert Henry Cox, Walter Reseigh Cox, Ernest Goodenough Cox, Alfred Cox, and William Downing Cox, by whom the said business will in future be carried on under the present style or firm of Cox and Co...'[3]
1900s The yard built a tug to move the many ships that came into dry docks at Falmouth Docks. The yard also made three excursion steamers and a passenger ferry.
1909 Cox and Company (Engineers) Limited was incorporated on 29th May to acquire the business of shipbuilders and repairers, boilermakers and engineers of Falmouth.[4]
In 1918 the company was taken over by R. H. Green and Silley Weir
1920s The yard continued making tugs but started to shift its focus towards ship repairing as this was more lucrative. The last ships to be built at the yard were six large Spanish trawlers
1937 Having had a close association with R H Green and Silley Weir for some years, it was decided to change the name of Cox and Co (Engineers) to Silley Cox and Co[5]
1944 Private company.
1961 Automobile seating engineers, tubular steel furniture and auditorium seating manufacturers. Trade Mark "Cox" tubular steel furniture. 1,350 employees.
1977 The yard became a ship repairer within British Shipbuilders and was known as Falmouth Shiprepairers
In 1985 the three dry docks were sold privately and became A. and P. Appledore (Falmouth) Ltd.
Notes
The Museum of the Great Western Railway has a brass name plaque 'Cox and Co, engineers, ship-builders and boiler makers, Docks Iron Works, Falmouth'
Is there a connection with Silley Cox and Co?
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1883
- ↑ The Engineer of 30th November 1894 p464
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:27 December 1901 Issue:27391 Page:9155
- ↑ [1] Companies house filing
- ↑ The Times Nov. 1, 1937
- British Shipbuilding Yards. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss
- The Engineer of 28th March 1890 p259-60
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE