Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Darley and Brydon

From Graces Guide

of Bengal Street, Ancoats, Machester

1808 Advert: 'Machinery, Counting House Fixtures, Brass, Iron, &c.
SALE BY-AUCTION, By Mr Goodier, On Monday the first day of August 1808, at a Cotton Factory belonging to Messrs Darley and Brydon, Bengal-street, Manchester,
Two Mules, 216 spindles each; one ditto, 276 spindles; a Drawing Frame, four heads, and Roving Frame of 8 heads; two making-up-presses, new, for 10 and 5 lbs. one mahogany counter, a mahogany counting-house desk, a quantity of partitioning and timber, about ten tons of wrought iron, one ton of steel spindles, and one ton of brass, with a large quantity of cotton cans, skips, straps, doffing tins, change pinions and rollers, gallowses, counter drums, &c.
The whole is well worth the attention of machine makers, jobbing smiths, &c. a great part of it being screw bolts ready made. The whole will be sold in lots, agreeable to purchasers. Sale to begin at ten o'clock.'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 26 July 1808