Thomas Turton & Sons of Sheaf Works, Maltravers Street, Sheffield, Spring Works, and Slack Steel Works
Makers of steel and steel products, including tyres, springs, saws, files, etc.
1824 Company founded by Thomas Turton.
1827 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership between Joseph Gaunt and Thomas Turton, of Sheffield, in the County of York, File-Manufacturers and Steel-Converters and Casters, is this day dissolved by mutual consent; and that each of the said parties will henceforth carry on the same business on his own separate account...'[1]
1850 For Sale. 'FREEHOLD MANUFACTORY, known by the Name of "SPRING WORKS," situate in and fronting to Gibraltar street, Bower spring, and Russell street, Sheffield; the property of, and occupied by Thomas Turton and Sons, who have succeeded to the extensive Business and Premises of Messrs. Wm. Greaves and Sons, Sheaf Works. The above Manufactory was built for, and expressly adapted to the File, Saw, Spring, and Edge-Tool Business, with extra erections for Steel Melting and Converting ; comprising within its limits two first-rate Converting Furnaces, 20-hole Melting Furnace ; a Grinding Wheel, with Light and Heavy Troughs; Fire-proof Filecutters' Shops and Hearths; spacious Spring Shops, with Engine Stacks and Furnaces; superior Warehouses, Counting-Houses, and an excellent Dwelling-House....'[2]
1860 Frederick Thorpe Mappin purchased Thomas Turton and Sons, a top-quality steel manufacturer and owners of William Greaves and Co where he implemented machine working, despite a strike by employees.
1870 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Frederick Thorpe Mappin and William Anthony Matthews, as Merchants and Manufacturers, carrying on business at Sheaf Works, in Sheffield, in the county of York, under the firm of Thomas Turton and Sons, has been dissolved by mutual consent, as from the 25th day of April, 1868. All debts due to and from the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Frederick Thorpe Mappin, who will in future carry on the said business on his own account, under the firm of Thomas Turton and Sons...'[3]
1880 Private company.
1891 Advert. Crucible cast steel. [4]
1901 Railway Spring Manufacturers. [5]
1920 Sir Frank Mappin the MD dies. [6]
1961 Steel and spring manufacturers and tool makers. 340 employees. [7]
1966 Thomas Turton & Sons Limited, Sheaf Works, Maltravers Street, Sheffield, applied for water extraction licence[8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:2 January 1827 Issue:18319 Page:4
- ↑ Sheffield Independent - Saturday 08 June 1850
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:7 January 1870 Issue:23575 Page:156
- ↑ 1891 Post Office London Trades Directory
- ↑ 1901 White's Directory of Sheffield and Rotherham p980
- ↑ The Engineer of 4th June 1920 p581
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ London Gazette 21 June 1966