Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,717 pages of information and 247,131 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Mersey Wheel Works (Derby)

From Graces Guide

of Norringham Road, Derby

1881 'IN LIQUIDATION. MERSEY WHEEL WORKS, NOTTINGHAM ROAD, DERBY.
TO RAILWAY WHEEL AND AXLE MANUFACTURERS, ENGINEERS, IRON MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS.
MESSRS. AULT, SPRECKLEY &Co. are instructed by Mr. T. H. Harrison, trustee, to SELL by AUCTION ..... The whole of the valuable MOVEABLE PLANT and STOCK-IN TRADE, consisting of in part Nine 6 and 8 tons railway waggons, in good condition ; four Houghes' patent high-speed horizontal engines; one radial drilling machine, by Lowry and Co.; Handyside's patent emery wheel, large quantity of Bessemer and cast steel tyres; ...... one 8ft. 6in. standard steel rule in mahogany case, Whittam, &c.....'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 8 April 1881