Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Newton and Gibson

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of Bewsey Mill Foundry, Warrington

1838 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between the undersigned, Isaac Newton and John Gibson, as Ironfounders, at Warrington, in the county of Lancaster, under the firm of Newton and Gibson, was this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[1]

1838 Advert: 'Valuable and Extensive Sale of Machinery, Engine, Wheel and other Patterns, Large Double Power and other Cranes; Lathes with Iron and Wood Gantrees, Boring Mill, Screwing Machine, &c. at Bewsey Mill Foundry, Warrington.
MR. T. HOPE has received instructions to SELL BY AUCTION, by order of the Creditors of Messrs. Newton and Gibson, Wednesday, 30th, 1838, and following days, at the above Foundry, the whole of the varied and extemive STOCK of MACHINERY, comprising Shafts, Wheels, Pulleys, &c. ; the whole of the ENGINE, Wheel, Shaft, Pedestal, Water Wheel, and other Patterns, collected during many years of extensive Business, in almost all the Corn and other Mills, particularly in Cheshire and the surrounding districts ; the whole of the Stock and Tools used in Foundry, Smithy. &c., Steel, Wrought, and Cast Iron; Sycamore, Crab Tree, and other Timber, with every article requisite for carrying on an extensive business ; particulars of which will given in Catalogues one week before the Sale, and may be had from Messrs. J. FINCH and SON, Iron Merchants, Sir Thomas’s Buildings, Liverpool; Mr. PHILIP FRYER, Iron Merchant, Deansgate, Manchester; the Chronicle Office, Bolton; the Gazette Office, Wigan; and from the Auctioneer, Butter Market-street, Warrington.'[2]

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