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Vectis Iron Works

From Graces Guide

of Newport, Isle of Wight.

Makers of all kinds of Improved Flour Machinery. Steam Engine Cylinders Bored, and Slides...

1856 'To Agriculturist and others of Dorset and surrounding Counties. WHEREAS, MR. FREDERICK URRY, late Manager of the Branch Business, Wimborne, being no longer in my employ, I beg to say that the business as Engineer, Agricultural and General Machinist is carried on as usual by Mr. BARNABAS URRY, at Wimborne, where all orders for Portable and fixed Steam Engines, Combined Thrashing Machines, Implements and Machinery of the most improved Manufacture shall be punctually attended to.'[1]

1857 Patent to Barnabas Urry, of the Vectis Works, Newport, Isle of Wight, in the county of Hampshire, Engineer, for the invention of "improvements in seed-drills."[2]

The works were later occupied by Way and Minns

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Sources of Information

  1. Poole & Dorset Herald - Thursday 28 August 1856
  2. London Gazette 24 July 1857