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Pickering Block and Hoist Co

From Graces Guide
May 1896.

of Hemel Hempstead

c.1876 Business established (see advert)

1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Self-sustaining hoist for potatoes.[1]

1895 AT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above-named Company, duly convened and held at High-street Hemel Hempstead Herts on the 13th day of September 1895, the following Special Resolution was duly passed: "That the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. Herbert S. Riant of Copthall House 48 Copthall-avenue London E.C. be appointed Liquidator of the Company." W. H. CRANSTONE, Chairman[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Engineer 1894/06/29 p562
  2. ↑ London Gazette 8 Nov 1895
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