Fox's Lane Iron Works
of Shadwell
1838 Advert: 'FOX'S LANE IRON WORKS, SHADWELL, Near the Church. To STEAM BOAT COMPANIES, ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS, SMITHS, and OTHERS. MR. HOFMAN will SELL by AUCTION, (By Order of the Proprietors), on the Premises, on MONDAY August 27, 1838, at Twelve o'clock (if not previously disposed of by Private Contract), A SIX-HORSE POWER HIGH PRESSED STEAM ENGINE, SELF-ACTING LATHE, with 20 FEET of BED ; FOOT-LATHE, with Sliding Rest and Gear, for Cutting Screws, a Pair of Double Jack Screws, Double and Single Power Winches, Sliding Rest, Three and Two-fold Iron Blocks, Snatch Ditto, 30 Fathom of Chain, Lathe Heads, Top and Bottom Swages, Fullers and Flats, Anvils, Vices, Bellows, Furnace Bars, Bolt Tools, Chissels, Mandrils, Taps, Dies and Stocks, Smiths' Tongs, Hammers, and a variety of Tools adapted for Steam Engine and Boiler Manufacturers, Smiths, &c. May be viewed on the Saturday previous, and Morning of Sale; Catalogues had on the Premises, and of Mr. Hofman, Auctioneer and Appraiser, 21, Upper St. Martin's-lane.' [1]
1841 Advert: 'SALES BY AUCTION: To Engineers, Millwrights, and others.— Shadwell. By Mr. FULLER, on the Premises, Fox's-lane, Shadwell, a few paces from the London Dock Basin, To-morrow, June 10, at Eleven, The Machinery and Fittings of an Engineer's Factory, nearly new; a five-horse power high-pressure steam engine and boiler, two ten horse power high pressure steam-engines, a capital self-acting engine-turning lathe, 18 feet long, by Fox; five turning lathes, from 12 feet to 3 feet 6 long; a comb-cutting machine; 50 feet shafting, taps and dies, steel turning tools, 10 wrought iron vices, drilling machine, double and single smiths' forges, anvils and swages, top and bottom and smiths' tools, work benches blocks and falls, two tons of new iron, brickwork, and a working model of a small steam-engine. At the same time will be sold the Lease of the Premises, held for a term of years, at a very low rent.— The premises may be viewed till the sale, and the effects this day, when catalogues and particulars may be had on the premises; and of Mr. Fuller, 13, Billiter-street, Fenchurch-street, City.'[2]