Plant and Hancock
Thomas Plant and George Hancock, Agricultural engineers, of Elworth, Sandbach
The company manufactured portable steam engines
1857 Plant and Hancock of Sandbach mentioned as agents for Bentall's implements.[1]
1866 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Thomas Plant and George Hancock, carrying on business as Engineers and Ironfounders, at the Elworth Foundry, near Sandbach Station, in the county of Chester, under the firm of Plant and Hancock, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[2]
1866 Became Hancock and Foden when Edwin Foden became a partner
The firm later became Foden