Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Shorthouse and Co

From Graces Guide

of Burton-on-Trent

1784 'WHEREAS a Person who travelled Through Derbyshire and the adjoining Counties, about Mid-summer last, propagated a Report that Mess. SHORTHOSE and Co. had declined the Patten-Ring Business, whereby their Friends have been imposed on, and themselves materially injured. If any Person will give such Information as may tend to the Conviction of the Offender, he shall receive FIVE GUINEAS Reward.
All Sorts of PATTEN-RINGS and WOOD-SCREWS sold at their Factory, on the lowest Terms of the Trade. Burton-upon-Trent, Oct. 11, 1784.'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Derby Mercury, 7 October 1784