J. E. H. Andrew and Co
of Stockport Gas Engine Works, South Reddish, Stockport
1878 James Edward Hyde Andrew was granted a licence to build the Bisschop Engine
1880 Advert for patent Bisschop gas engine.
1881 Partnership change. '...Partnership (if any) between Eliza Howard Andrew, Charles Henry Andrew, and Ann Maria Andrew, carrying on business as Engineers, at Stockport, under the style or firm of J. E. H. Andrew and Co., was determined on the 30th September last by mutual consent; and the business has been since the 30th September last carried on and will continue to be carried on by the said Eliza Howard Andrew and Charles Henry Andrew as sole partners therein, under the style of J. E. H. Andrew and Co...'[1]
1881 Employing 52 men and 2 boys.[2]
1883 Advert. Sole makers of the Bisschop patent gas engine: patentees and makers of tobacco spinning machines, gas roaster for coffee, chicory, cocoa, malt, tobacco stalks for snuff taking etc. [3]
1890 Showed gas engines driving a Phoenix dynamo at the Engineers, Electricians, Builders and Ironmongers Exhibition.[4]
1899 On appeal, the company was found to have infringed Lanchester's patent for improvement in gas motor engines; the action had been brought by British Motor Syndicate [5] [6].
1899 Legal action brought by the British Motor Syndicate and others against J. E. H. Andrew and Co which Andrews won.[7]
1900 Appeal against the judgement in the previous legal action[8].
Later built two-stroke and then four-stroke engines
1906 Absorbed by Richard Hornsby and Sons of Grantham. The Stockport works were added to those at Grantham.