Frank Pearn and Co
Frank Pearn and Co of West Gorton, Manchester.
See Frank Pearn
1872 Exhibited several donkey pumps at the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show.[1]
1875 exhibitor at the 1875 Smithfield Show. Donkey Pumps. [2]
1875-78 See Frank Pearn and Co: Patents
1876 Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham with seven pumps.[3]
1880 Partnership and name change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Frank Pearn, Sinclair Pearn, and Arthur Collings Wells, carrying on business as Engineers, under the style or firm of Frank Pearn, Wells, and Co., at West Gorton, near the city of Manchester, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as from the 31st day of January last. The business will henceforth be carried on by the said Frank Pearn, Sinclair Pearn, and Thomas Addyman, as Copartners, under the style or firm of Frank Pearn and Co....'[4]
1881 Advert for Manchester Donkey or Wall Pump; The Manchester Pumping Engine.
1883 Frank Pearn and Co were advertising in 'The Textile Manufacturer' as sole licensees and makers of the 'Portland' Patent Rotary Pump in England
1886 Makers of Clarke's railway signal wire compensator [5]
c1900 Three engines for Stockport Waterworks (Wilmslow Station).
1905 Advert for pumps, air compressors, surface and jet condensers.Mechanical World Year Book 1905. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p36.
1913 Advert for pumps.Mechanical World Year Book 1913. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p54.
1914 Directory: Listed as 'Pumping Machinery for all purposes'.Kelly's Directory of Durham, 1914 p765.
1917 Advert for pumps.Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p126.
1919 Advert for pumps.Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p166.
1920 Two horizontal vacuum pumps.The Engineer of 16th Jan 1920 p74.
1927 Advert for pumps.Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p126.
1940 Advert. Pumps 'Pumps for all purposes'.Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p188.
1945 Advert for pumps.Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p152.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Times - Saturday 14 September 1872
- ↑ The Engineer 1875/12/10
- ↑ The Engineer 1876/07/21 p40
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:15 June 1880 Issue:24855 Page:3494
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 23rd April 1886.
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6