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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.
1856 'The following tenders were accepted :- Jones and Jump, for slides to the sheds at the north and south quays of the Wellington dock; J. Haswell, for iron castings for the doors at the sameme dock; R. Ashton and Co., for red lead, paint, &c., for the dock works.'[1]
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