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Bernard Peard Walker

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Bernard Peard Walker of Bernard P. Walker, of Eagle Foundry.

1821 Born

1853 Mr. Bernard Peard Walker and Mr. James Warren patented an arrangement consisting of an ordinary furnace communicating with the interior of a revolving puddling furnace[1]

1864 of Junction Cut Nail Works, Wolverhampton.

1864 of Danks, Walker and Co, Cut Nail Works, Wolverhampton.[2]

By 1872 Bernard Peard Walker was the proprietor of the Eagle Foundry

He was the patentee, or joint patentee, of a number of inventions, including a nail making machine patented in 1844 [3]

1880 Proceedings for Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors initiated by Bernard Peard Walker of the Eagle Foundry, Broad Street, Birmingham, residing at Moorfield Church Lane, Birmingham [4]

1888 Died in West Bromwich[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1874/10/09
  2. 1864 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  3. [1] Online version of article entitled 'Maschine zur Verfertigung von Nägeln, worauf sich Bernard Peard Walker zu Wolverhampton am 6. März 1844 ein Patent ertheilen ließ'
  4. The London Gazette Publication date:23 January 1880 Issue:24805 Page:380
  5. BMD