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Liddell and Gordon
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Civil engineers, Westminster,
Early 1840s Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon and Charles Liddell formed a partnership to construct railway lines
Engineers for the Syston and Peterborough Railway, the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (1846) and the Leicester and Hitchin Railway.
1849 Published a plan for supplying water to London from Mapledurham[1]
1856 Fleeming Jenkin joined the business and became deeply involved in marine telegraph engineering through Lewis Gordon's association with the cable manufacturer R. S. Newall and Co of Birkenhead.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Exposition of a plan for a Metropolitan Water Supply: By Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon and Charles Liddell