George Adams and Sons
From Graces Guide
of Mars Iron Works, Priestfields, Wolverhampton
1867 Company established by George Adams, Richard Morris and Abraham Bennett.
1874 Partnership dissolved: George Adams and Co.[1]
1874 Continued as George Adams.
1879 Re-named George Adams and Sons
1882 George North Adams became a partner.
1892 Advert. [2]
1894 Incorporated as a private limited company.
1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail [3]
1914 Manufacturers of iron and steel sheets, hoops and bars; galvanized plain and corrugated sheets. Employees 750. [4]
1925 The Mars Ironworks of the company were purchased by Thomas W. Ward of Sheffield for the purpose of dismantling.[5]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Lloyd's List - Saturday 17 October 1874
- ↑ Wolverhampton Red Book and Directory, 1892
- ↑ Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Advertisers
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1925/07/17