of Victoria Works, Darlaston, Birmingham
1884 Company founded by John Rubery and his two brothers, as an ironworks manufacturing gates and fences.
1888 "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Samuel Rubery, John Tunner Rubery, and [[Thomas William Rubery]], in the trade or business of Iron Merchants and Manufacturers of Ironwork, at Blockall, and at the Green, Darlaston, in the county of Stafford, under the style or firm of Rubery Brothers, was, on the 29th day of February, 1888, dissolved by mutual consent."[1]
1893 "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned,Samuel Rubery and Thomas William Rubery, carrying on business as Iron Merchants, at Blockall, Darlaston, in the county of Stafford, under the style or firm of Samuel Rubery and Sons, was dissolved as and from the 29th day of April, 1893, by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Samuel Rubery."[2].
1893 The two brothers were joined by an engineer Alfred Owen.
1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail [3]
1899 Motor Show exhibitor
1903 The company name of Rubery Owen was established.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ London Gazette 6 April 1888
- ↑ London Gazette 5 May 1893
- ↑ Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Advertisers