Warden, Clark and Muirhead
Telegraph engineers, electrical engineers and contractors
c.1860 Company founded by John Muirhead senior, with Josiah Latimer Clark and W. M. Warden to provide manufacturing facilities for the new telegraphic industry[1]
1870s Alexander Muirhead became scientific adviser to the firm.
Amongst other jobs, the firm installed the telegraph cable from King William's Town to Queenstown and Beaufort West, some 1,200 miles into the interior of Southern Africa.
1876 the Partnership between William Marston Warden, John Muirhead, and Josiah Latimer Clark, under the name, style, or firm of Warden, Muirhead, and Clark, as Electric Telegraph Engineers, at 29, Regent-street, in the city of Westminster, expired on the 31st day of December, 1876, by effluxion of time.[2]
The business was continued as Latimer Clark, Muirhead and Co