Richard Johnson, Clapham and Morris
From Graces Guide
of 24 Lever Street, Manchester
- 1773 Company founded.
- 1891 Public company.
- 1914 General hardware, iron and metal merchants. Specialities: galvanized wire netting, wire work, wire drawers, brass foundry, high-tension bronzes, safety lamps for miners, woven wire of all kinds, wire, reinforcements for concrete and bricks, tinplates, sheet iron, galvanized corrugated iron, tinned sheets, sheet zinc, copper, spelter, tin lead, hardware and hollow ware. [1]
- 1961 Engaged as metal, electrical and hardware manufacturers and factors. 560 employees. [2]