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.

George Ritson

From Graces Guide

of Mill Street, Ancoats, Manchester

Valuable Tools and Patterns for the Most Improved Machinery for Cotton and Flax Spinning, and Silk Throwing and Spinning. .... by order of the Executrix of the late George Ritson, on the premises in her occupation, situate in Mill-street, Ancoats, Manchester; sale to commence punctually eleven o'clock in the forenoon:
The Valuable and Well-finished TOOLS, comprising capital double-geared slide lathe, 8 3/8 headstocks, bed 32 feet long, 12 inches wide, with slide rest, cast iron rack and grooved shaft; ..... '[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Courier - 8 January 1842