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Richard Threlfall (of Bolton)

From Graces Guide
1848.

Of Bridgeman Place Foundry, Bolton

Established by Richard Threlfall (1805-1867) in 1834.

1836 Permission granted for a house and workshop in Bridgeman Place.[1]

1857 Advert. '...Threlfall's New Self-Acting Mule...[long description given]'[2]

1861 Patent. '1859. To Richard Threlfall, of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, Machine Maker and Founder, for the invention of "improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning cotton or other fibrous material."'[3]

1864 Patent. '1369. To Richard Threlfall, of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and Robert Walker Pitfield, of the same place, Machinist, for the invention of "improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning cotton, wool, flax, and other fibrous materials."'[4]

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