Coleman and Morton of London Road, Chelmsford
1850s Established as Coleman and Son.
1862 Exhibited at the 1862 London Exhibition a portable engine
1862 Cultivating apparatus.
Became Coleman and Morton.
1866 Listed as Coleman and Morton, London Road Iron Works, - Chelmsford. - Agricultural implements and machines at the 1867 Paris Exhibition
1871 Exhibited a potato digger in the 1871 Smithfield Club Show. [1]
1873 Listed as Coleman and Morton, London road Iron Works, Chelmsford, Essex. Agricultural machines and implements at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition.[2]
1877 Exhibitor at the 1877 Royal Agricultural Show at Liverpool.[3].
1888 Produced wheat grader machinery [4]
1895 Partnership changed. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned Henry Septimus Coleman and Alfred George Edwin Morton carrying on business as Agricultural Engineers and Ironfounders at Chelmsford in the county of Essex under the style or firm of Coleman and Morton has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 29th day of June 1895. The business will from that date be carried on under the same style by George Henry Coleman and Alfred Reay Morton...'[5]
1906 The partnership was dissolved.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1871/12/08
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:24 January 1873 Issue:23941 Page:325
- ↑ The Engineer 1877/07/13
- ↑ The Engineer of 6th January 1888 p2
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:23 July 1895 Issue:26646 Page:4181
- Steam Engine Builders of Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1950 by The Augustine Steward Press