John Sutton

of Boston Works, Bristol Street, Hulme, Manchester

1892 'Dating back in its foundation to the year 1851, the business was established by the father of the present proprietor, the latter succeeding in 1868. The works are laid out on an extensive scale, and are replete in the various departments with machinery and appliances of the most improved description, with every facility for the effective and economical working of the business. Mr. Sutton gives regular employment to upwards of twenty skilled and experienced workmen in the manufacture of patent suction and sight feed lubricators, improved valve oil cans, tin bobbins for woollen, cotton, flax, and silk, improved steel, tin, wire, eyelet, and curled wire cotton guides, special guides for ring throstles, &c.; also Sutton’s Patent Suction Lubricator and Sutton’s Patent Elevator Bucket, for corn mills. These goods are well and favourably known in the trade, and exhibit in every detail of their construction that marvellous excellence of material and workmanship which has made the productions of these works famous through-out the district. Mr. Sutton has an excellent connection amongst mill owners and manufacturers throughout Lancashire and adjoining counties, which is well founded upon the eminent reputation so long enjoyed, and the well-known quality, character, and utility of all the articles manufactured. Mr. John Sutton, who is the sole proprietor, is a thoroughly practical man, with an experience extending over many years. He has most successfully introduced several valuable and useful patents, which have a large and increasing sale, and is widely recognised as a courteous, and enterprising business man.'