Perkins, Critchley and Marmont
of Frogmarsh Mill, Woodchester
1860 Perkins, Critchley and Marmont, of Frogmarch Mills, 'a very complete machine for the manufacture of pins from the wire, the cutting, pointing, and heading, being all done by the same machine'[1]
1875 'A VISIT TO FROGMARSH PIN MILLS...Messrs. Perkins, Critchley and Marmont...On the ground floor is one of Messrs. Cooke, Vick, and Co.'s horizontal high-pressure steam engines, of twenty nominal horse power, though capable of being driven at nearly double that strength, and by a judicious arrangement, this acts in conjunction with a sixteen horse-power water wheel, of the ordinary breast-shot character, which is in juxta-position to the steam engine ; so that by the combined action of the two, there is a power equal to that of about fifty horses to drive the pin-making and other machinery throughout the mills. As is well known, the pins are chiefly made of brass ; though for mourning pins, iron is substituted and japanned afterwards. The brass is first cast in ingots, and then cut in to strips about the thickness of wire, but this work is performed by other manufacturers, as the material is received at Frogmarsh Mills in skeins of wire several hundred yards in length....'[2]
became Perkins and Marmont