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 167,713 pages of information and 247,105 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.

John Martin Moorwood

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John Martin Moorwood ( -1940) of John M. Moorwood

Born the son of T. P. Moorwood


1940 Obituary.[1]

JOHN MARTIN MOORWOOD, the governing director of Messrs. John M. Moorwood, Ltd., died on April 8, 1940; he was seventy¬eight years old. He was the second son of Mr. T. P. Moorwood, one of the founders of Messrs. Marshall, Watson and Moorwood, a Sheffield firm of ironfounders. After a period with this firm, Mr. Moorwood founded his own works, to which he gave his name, for the production of chilled, grain and special alloy rolls. He was connected with the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce for over twenty years and had been president of the Sheffield Ironfounders’ Associa¬tion since 1931. He was a Freeman of the Cutlers’ Company.

Mr. Moorwood joined The Iron and Steel Institute in 1930.


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Sources of Information

  1. 1940 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute