W. and C. Wynn and Co
formerly William and Cornelius Wynn and Co
1844 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, John Cook Wynn and Robert Grove, both of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, as Tool and Steel Toy Makers, under the firm of W. and C. Wynn and Co was dissolved, on the 24th day of June last past, by effluxion of time; and that all debts owing to and due from the said late firm will be received and paid by the said John Cook Wynn, by whom the said business will in future be carried on under the style or firm of W. and C. Wynn and Co...'[1]
1849 Directory: Listed as Edge Tool Maker - W. C. Wynn and Co
1849 Directory: Listed as Heavy Steel Toy and Tool Makers - W. C. Wynn and Co
1860 Advertising for staff as W. and C. Wynn and Co, 142 Suffolk Street.[2]
1887 Takeover of R. Timmins and Sons. 'TRADE CHANGE. The old-established steel-toy business of Richard Timmins and Sons, of Pershore Street, has been sold to Messrs. W. and C. Wynn and Co., of Commercial Street, who propose extending their works with a view to the eventual concentration of the amalgamated businesses at one place.'[3]
Becomes Wynn, Timmins and Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:19 July 1844 Issue:20365 Page:2518
- ↑ Birmingham Journal - Saturday 10 March 1860
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 08 July 1887