Fossey (Spain)
From Graces Guide
of Lasarte de Guipúzcoa.
1848 Fossey y Cia foundries established 10 December 1848, closed in 1888.[1]
In 1852, Fermín Lasala, director of the improvement works company of the dock of the port of the city of San Sebastián, commissioned British engineer Eduardo Fossey to construct a dredger. It had a 4 HP steam engine.[2]
1853 Fossey established a foundry and engineering works at Lasarte, near San Sebastián.
1858 Joined by partners, establishing Fossey y Cia.
1868 The business became Fossey, Goicoechea y cía, with Fossey as Director.
Produced iron and brass castings, water turbines, papermaking machinery, coining presses, etc.
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Sources of Information
- [3] Inversiones extranjeras en Guipúzcoa en el siglo XIX (1842-1875), by Carlos Larrinaga, Universidad del País Vasco