Belliss and Seekings
of Broad Street, Islington, Birmingham
1862 George Edward Belliss acquired the business of his employer R. Bach and Co at 13-14 Broad Street, Islington, Birmingham, and went into partnership with Joseph J. Seekings, as Belliss and Seekings.
1862 Advertised as successors to R. Bach and Co, 13-14 Broad St, manufacturers of high pressure fixed steam engines, travelling portable steam engines, contractors' locomotives, flour mills, circular saw benches, steam boilers[1]. Wrote a letter to a newspaper warning of damage to packages sent to 1862 Exhibition[2].
1862 Exhibition; vertical steam engine. Described as successors to R. Bach and Co. of Broad Street, Birmingham.
1866: Supplied 0-4-2WT locomotive Primus to Pike Brothers of Poole.
1866 Mr Seekings retired from the business which was renamed G. E. Belliss and Co, advertised as engineers and boiler makers, 13-14 Broad St, late Belliss and Seekings[3].
Mr Seekings subsequently moved to Gloucester, surviving for many years before dying c.1899, after which land he owned on corner of Hagley Road and Ladywood Road was sold; banks constructed on the site[4]