Joseph and Jesse Siddons
J & J Siddons of Hill Top, West Bromwich. Cast Hollow-ware & General Ironfounders
Established 1846.
They produced smoothing irons from 1846 to 1939 [1]
1878 'THE PARIS EXHIBITION. BIRMINGHAM HARDWARE RIVALS. .... The West Bromwich and Wolverhampton vitrified porcelain enamel ware is represented by Messrs. Archibald Kenrick and Sons and Messrs. J. and J. Siddons, who show a well assorted collection of kitchen utensils in cast iron and enamel coatings. The objection to this taking looking [?] substance is its liability to crack and break, without resort to deleterious ingredients like arsenic and lead. Housewives will always prefer an easily kept clean white bottom to their pots and pans if it does not slip away or endanger the safety of the family. Messrs. Siddons, of West Bromwich, state that they have at length attained this desideratum by a secret process, which has just stood tho most crucial test possible. During the rounds of the jury one of the members asked permission to break in pieces an enamelled pan, when it was found that this substance adhered perfectly to the fractured parts — a thing thought to be impossible. I was shown this myself, and can testify to the unimpaired surface of the enamel. The same firm a short time ago requested Mr. Tatlock, the Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh, to procure one of their saucepans and report on its composition, when this was declared entirely free from dangerous ingredients. Whether these goods are destined to supersede the French copper utensls remains to be seen but one may search far and wide in the foreign sections for any corresponding ware, unless it be in Jassy Freres and Co.'s stand, of Beaucourt, near Belfort, who, however, cannot approach the standard of Messrs. Giddons. The originators the enamel proceis, Messrs. T. and C. Clark and Co., of Wolverhampton, show some good specimens of their vitrified porcelain ware, including a large-size plunge-bath, which it is to be hoped will tempt French builders of dwelling houses to adopt it. In the enamel of this firm lead appears to used, but not arsenic. ...[2]
1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail
1922 Products: Cast-iron hollow-ware, grey iron castings for engineers, castings for electrical trade.
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