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of Meadow Foundry, Mansfield
1872 Company founded.
1877 Presumably William Richardson was the correspondent fromn this address to The Engineer.[1]
1878 Exhibited Tobacco making machinery at the 1878 Paris Exhibition[2]
1895 Antonio Richardson was the cashier of the company.
1897 William Richardson was the managing director
1922 Engineers and Iron Founders, Mansfield. Directors: G. Stevenson, J.P. (Chairman), J. Birks, A. Birks, W. F. Wharmby, E. E. Mawle (Managing ), S. B. Wright (also Sec. ). Manufactures.—Hot-water (heating) pipes, flanged pipes, calorifiers, heaters, sewage and sanitary castings heating appliances of all descriptions.
1957 Acquired Sanderson and Robinson
Note: Memories of working at the company from 1960 until its closure in January 1980 by Allan Barham are in the SMC Archives.[3]