Joseph Evans
of 44 Legge Street, Birmingham
1834 Advert: 'MR. JOSEPH EVANS (from the late Mr John Drane's) respectfully informs his Friends and the Public that he has commenced business on his own account as a Lathe, Press, and Copying Machine-maker, and also a Machine Planer ; and he pledges himself to plane all kinds of Metal, either flat or angular surfaces, with perfect accuracy, and on the most reasonable terms. Docker's Mill, Bagot-street, May 12, 1834.[1]
1842 'IMPORTANT SALE OF PERCUSSION GUN CAPS, ROLLED COPPER GILDING METAL, VERY SUPERIOR LATHES AND PRESSES, By Evans, Successor to Drane, SHOP TOOLS, FIXTURES, MODERN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND EFFECTS, No. 39. SUMMER-ROW, BIRMINGHAM.
TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by E. and C. ROBINS and Co. on Monday and Tuesday the 2d and 3d days of May next, commencing each morning punctually at ten o'clock, upon the premises. No. 39, Summer-row, close to Friday-bridge, without reserve, by direction of the Assignees to the Estate Mr. F. A. Wheeler, Percussion Gun-cap Manufacturer, a bankrupt — the valuable STOCK in TRADE, SHOP TOOLS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects.
The STOCK in TRADE comprises a large quantity of military and fowling-gun percussion caps, many cwts. of blanks for ditto, about 16 cwt. rolled copper and gilding metal, tin cap boxes, scrap metal, upwards of 90,000 of Baldwin's, improved gun wadding &c. &c.
The SHOP TOOLS. FIXTURES, &c. consist of very superior NEW PRESSES, made by Evans, successor to Drane, four valuable LATHES of the same make, equal to new, press benches, smiths' bellows, scales and weights, counters, shelving, desks, &c.; likewise very complete PRIMING MACHINE. The HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprises handsome new chamber effects, dining-room and parlour suites, kitchen and culinary articles, &c. Sec. Catalogues may be had six days prior to the sale of the Auctioneers, 47, New-street, Birmingham.'[2]
1849 Directory: Listed as Engineers
1849 Directory: Listed as makers of lathe and press tools