Southern and Richardson
Southern and Richardson of the Don Cutlery Works, Sheffield, Cutlers.
1869 Dissolution of the Partnership between Francis Southern and Samuel Richardson, carrying on business as Cutlery Manufacturers, at the Don Cutlery Works, in Doncaster street, in Sheffield, in the county of York, under the firm of Southern and Richardson; all debts owing to and by the said firm will be received and paid by the said Samuel Richardson, by whom the business will for the future be carried on under the said firm.[1]
1899 Disastrous boiler explosion. The inquest was reported in detail in Engineering, from which: 'Seven persons were almost instantaneously killed. One of these was the caretaker, a second was the engine-tender — a man named Lickfold, who had only started work for Messrs. Southern and Richardson the previous day, having been lent to them by a firm who were putting down a gas engine, which it was intended should take the place of the steam boiler; a third was a carter, who was in the employ of a local firm, and who happened to be near the boiler at the time; while four others were men or boys engaged at the works. Added to these, ten other persons were injured, two so seriously that they were removed to the infirmary.'[2]
c1922 Amalgamated with other cutlery companies to form a company named Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ London Gazette 23 February 1869
- ↑ Engineering 1899/12/29
- ↑ The Engineer 1925/11/20