Swingler and Son
of Victoria Works, Derby
1853 Patent to Thomas Swingler, of Victoria Foundry, Litchurch, in the county of Derby for "Improvements in the permanent way of railways"[1]
1855 Thomas Swingler was operating the Victoria Iron Works.
1862 'Expeditious Work.— An anvil block, weighing twenty-two tons, for Messrs. Eastwood and Sons, was cast at Mr. Swingler's, Victoria Foundry, on Wednesday last. The mould was prepared and the casting run in twenty-three hours. For this huge casting twenty-five tons of iron were melted and run into the mould in the short space of two hours and a half. This is an achievement not before accomplished in this neighbourhood.'[2]
1867 Joined with James Eastwood and Sons (of Derby) to become Eastwood, Swingler and Co