Grimshaw, Webster and Co
From Graces Guide
of Sunderland
1793 Opened Webster's Ropery, a partnership of John Grimshaw (1763-1840), Rowland Webster and Ralph Hill
Opened what was probably the world's first factory for machine-made rope, eliminating the need for a rope walk.
1804 Production reached 800 tons per annum
1817 Partnership dissolved
Grimshaw continued to run the business, which presumably became John Grimshaw and Co
Later Webster and Co
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Sources of Information
- A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and ..., Volume 1 edited by A. W. Skempton