Lynch and Inglis
Lynch & Inglis of Charles Street, Brook Street, Manchester
1850 Makers of hydraulic presses, lathe and tool makers. Address: Charles Street, Brook Street. Edward James Lynch, engineer (Lynch & Inglis), 56 Welcomb Street, Hulme; Thomas Inglis, engineer (Lynch & Inglis), 13 Rosamund Place, Chorlton-on-Medlock [1].
1851 Award at the 1851 Great Exhibition for vertical cylinder direct-acting engine. See details at 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class V.
1851 One-horse portable steam engine for driving agricultural or other machinery [2]
1853 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Edward James Lynch and Thomas Inglis, carrying on business in Carpenter-street, Manchester, as Machinists, under the firm of Lynch and Inglis, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to or owing by the said concern will be received or paid by the said Thomas Inglis, by whom the said business will be carried on...'[3]
1856 The writer of an article concerning engineering in Brazil noted that at the Ponta d'Area Foundry at Nitherohy [Ponta d'Areia, Niterói], a Mr Maylor was the General Manager, and 'I noticed Mr Lynch, formerly of the firm of Lynch & Inglis of Manchester, in the position of foreman. The establishment is devoted to general engineering and mill work, iron founding and boat building....' [4]