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A. B. Fraser and Co

From Graces Guide

of 81 Regent Road, Liverpool

1880 Advert: 'SHIPS’ PUMPS, SHIPSMITHS, &c.
FRASER, A. B., & Co., 81 Regent Road (opposite Sandon Graving Docks), Liverpool: This firm are the sole makers and patentees of ships’ patent pumps, with crank, or patent rolling gear, and windmill pumps; most easily worked, do not lose their priming chambers and boxes all brass, and can be worked as main and bilge pumps combined.' [1]

1885 (March): 'On Monday night the foundary of Messrs. A. B. Fraser and Co., Regent-road, Liverpool, was destroyed by fire.'
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1885 (May): Partnership dissolved: 'Alexander MacDonald Black Fraser, and Prescott Gardner, trading as A. B. Fraser and Co., at the Fulton Iron Works, Fulton-street, Regent-road, Liverpool, engineers and boiler makers. H. P. Gardner retires.'[2]

1886 'Bankrupts. Adjudications. Alexander MacDonald Black Fraser, engineer and quarry proprietor, trading aa A. B. Fraser and Co., and the Appleton Quarry Company, residing at Fairfield, near Liverpool, trading at Regent-road, Liverpool, and at Appleton Quarry, near Widnes.'[3]

F. STEPHENSON & CO., (LATE A. B. FRASER A CO.), ENGINEERS, IRON SHIPWRIGHTS, GENERAL SHIP OUTFITTERS.
PATENT FRESH WATER CONDENSERS.
AGENTS for HARFIELD'S PATENT WINDLASSES. SCOTT'S PATENT ECONOMISERS.
28, STRAND-STREET, LIVERPOOL [4]

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Sources of Information

  1. Lloyd's List, 1 November 1880
  2. Liverpool Mercury - Wednesday 20 May 1885
  3. Huddersfield Chronicle - Wednesday 10 March 1886
  4. Liverpool Journal of Commerce, 3 January 1900