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 165,122 pages of information and 246,492 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.

Parfitt and Jenkins

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Parfitt and Jenkins of Cardiff were general engineers and shipbuilders

1857 Advertisement. Parfitt and Jenkins (late F. Catleugh), Hayes Foundry, Cardiff, Engineers, Millwrights and Agricultural Implement Makers...'[1]

1871 Listed as Parfitt and Jenkins of the Tubal Cain Engine Works, and manufacturers of ‘locomotive, marine and stationary engines and boilers, points, crossings, turntables, cranes and railway bridges'.[2]

1878 Patent. '4788. To George Parfitt, of the firm Parfitt and Jenkins, Tubal Cain Iron Works and Hayes Foundry, Cardiff; in the county of Glamorgan, for the invention of "improvements in street and like gratings."'[3]

1881 Acquired by Cardiff Junction Dry Dock and Engineering Co



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Sources of Information

  1. Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette - Saturday 31 January 1857
  2. 1871 Kelly’s Post Office Directory
  3. The London Gazette Publication date:4 January 1878 Issue:24538 Page:77