Walker, Eaton and Co
of Wicker Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield
1833 Advert: 'WICKER STEEL & IRON WORKS. WALKER, EATON, & Co. (LATEWALKER, WILDE, & CO.) RESPECTFULLY tender their acknowledgments to their Frends and the Public for the favors they have received since they commenced Business as IRON and BRASS FOUNDERS, and beg to solicit a continuance of their Orders for Ornamental Stove Grates, Hot Air Stoves, Economical Cooking Apparatus, Kitchen Stoves, Boilers, Palisades, Safes for Banks and Offices, Mill and Engine Castings, &c. &c. &c. which will be gratefully received and promptly executed in superior of Workmanship.
W. E. & Co. take this opportunity of stating, that they have Purchased of the late Messrs. PICKSLAY a select Assortment of MODELS and PATTERNS, and that they have made arrangements with their late Foreman, for Superintending the Stove Crate Business. Sheffield, 26th Dec. 1832'[1]
1838 Advert: 'The Late Mr. JOHN WALKER’S AFFAIRS.
ALL Persons standing indebted to the Private Account of the late Mr. JOHN WALKER, of the Firm of Walker, Eaton, and Co., are requested to pay the amount of their respective Debts to Mr. Edwin Eaton, at the Wicker Iron and Steel Works. Also, all Persons having any Claims against the Private Account of the above-named John Walker, are requested to send the particulars to Mr. Eaton, that the same may be discharged.
JOSEPH HUGILL, EDWIN EATON, JOHN FOWLER, executors of the late John Walker. Dec. 28th, 1838. ...[2]
1851 ' WALKER, EATON, and CO., STEEL MANUFACTURERS, ENGINEERS, IRON and BRASS FOUNDERS, WICKER STEEL and IRON WORKS, Sheffield.
Beg gratefully to acknowlege the favours of their Friends and the Public, and to inform them that they have purchased the Business and Stock-in-trade, (including the costly and extensive collection of Models), of the late Mr. Josh. Thompson, Engineer, Forge Works, Chesterfield.
W. E. and Co. also wish to announce that their Shops are fitted up with powerful Slide, Surfacing, and Screw-Cutting Lathes — Shaping, Slotting, Drilling, and Planing Machines, of modern construction; and that they are prepared to Manufacture all kinds of STATIONARY ENGINES and other Machinery, and execute Repairs and Jobbing Work with despatch in an efficient and substantial manner.'[3]
1853 Steel Converters and Refiners, Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, etc.
1857 Steel Converters and Refiners. [4]
1855 and 1860? Double beam engine at Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mill Co., Millsands, Sheffield[5].
1875: "3rd April 1875 Coal Aston Collieries: Messrs. James Rhodes and Sons who have worked out the colliery are to sell by auction the 16 H.P. engine by Walker Eaton and Co. A 22 H.P. horizontal engine by Walker Eaton, 12 H.P. vertical engine and two large boilers by Wood Brothers. 88 coke ovens. The colliery is about 1 1/2 miles from Dronfield."[6]
1883 Supplied rolling plant comprising an 18 in. forgetrain with squeezer, pendulum shears, and engines, a 14 in. and 10 in. merchant mill, hot-saw, and two shingling-hammers for the abortive Onehunga ironsands smelting project in New Zealand. The equipment appears to have subsequently gone to China.[7]
1899 Acquired by Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Sheffield Independent, 5 January 1833
- ↑ Sheffield Independent - Saturday 29 December 1838
- ↑ Derbyshire Courier - Saturday 15 February 1851
- ↑ [1] White's Directory of Derbyshire
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000
- ↑ [2]oldminer.co.uk website
- ↑ [3]Online version of 'New Zealand Ironsands: an Historical Account of an Attempt to Smelt Ironsands at Onehunga in 1883' by J M Chambers. Read before the Technological Section of the Wellington Philosophical Society, 13th June, 1917