T. and W. Summers
Of High Orchard Ironworks, Gloucester
1881 Thomas Summers (1855-1889) entered into partnership with his brother, William, and they purchased the business of William Savory and Son, engineers and millwrights, Gloucester, which was carried on under the style of T. and W. Summers, and gained a reputation for high-class workmanship and careful design.
Mr. Summers paid special attention to the machinery for manufacturing linoleum, and invented several improvements in this branch of engineering.
1889 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership which has for some years past been carried on by Thomas Summers and William Summers, under the firm of T. and W. Summers, at the city of Gloucester, in the trade or business of Engineers, has been dissolved...'[1]
By 1891 Summers and Scott occupied this site.