Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Vickers and Cooke

From Graces Guide

of Westminster Chambers, London

Civil engineering contractors

1877 'Fontaine Bruff, financial agent and engineer to Messrs. Vickers and Cook, of London, contractors of the Severn Bridge Railway, appeared under remand on a charge of embezzling £l5O 10s., the property of Mr. Brown, a member of the firm. The prosecution withdrew from the case, and the defendant was discharged without any imputation on his character.'[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Monmouthshire Merlin - Friday 13 July 1877