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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 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.

William Savory and Son

From Graces Guide
1859.

Engineers, Millwrights, iron and brass founders and boiler makers.

of the Docks, Gloucester.

1854 Partnership dissolved between William Savory and James Savory [1]

Mid 19th century: James Savory made a 24-foot diameter cast-iron waterwheel in Tewkesbury for Stanway Mill.

c.1857 Savory and Son started to manufacture portable engines with jacketed cylinders, well in advance of other manufacturers[2]

1881 Became T. and W. Summers

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Sources of Information

  1. Gloucester Journal - Saturday 9 December 1854
  2. The Engineer 1877/01/12
  • [1] Stanway watermill