John Bradley (Manchester)
1799: 'NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the Partnership heretofore subsisting, between JOHN BRADLEY, JOHN RICHMOND and JOHN WILKINSON, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, and carried on under the Firm of Bradley, Richmond and Co. was this Day Dissolved by mutual Consent. Witness their Hands, ....'[1]
1799 Advert: 'To Cotton Spinners and Machine Makers. To be sold, by private Contract, THIRTY CARD CYLINDERS, three Feet diameter, 20 Inches wide, with Axles fitted in, which are well seasoned, have been at work, and are made from the very best old pipe staves, are well worthy the Attention of any Persons fitting up new Machinery, being far superior to new Cylinders, from the certainty of their keeping in round. Apply to Join Bradley, at his Machine Shop, (late Dean's Factory), near Shooter's Brook.' [2]