S. Appleyard and Co
of Grantham Road Iron Works, Boothtown, Northowram, Halifax
Manufacturers and suppliers in Great Britain.
1890 Founded by Stephen Scott Whitaker
1891 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Appleyard, Benjamin Wright, and David Wright, as Curriers and Leather Dressers, at the Oxford Works, Mean wood-road, Leeds, in the county of York, under the style or firm of S. Appleyard and Co., was dissolved, by mutual consent, on the 27th day of November, 1890. All debts due to or owing by the said firm will be received and paid by the said Benjamin Wright and David Wright...'[1]
1937 Machine tool manufacturers[2]
An archive listing covering the dates c1898-c1953 indicates that the company made drilling machines and metal punching, shearing and bending machines [3]