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B. Hick and Sons
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B. Hick & Sons, subsequently Hick, Hargreaves & Co, was a British engineering company based at the Soho Ironworks in Bolton, England. Benjamin Hick, a partner in Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell, later Rot
Portrait c.1840 of Benjamin Hick, founder of B. Hick & Sons by George Patten ARA (1801–1865)
Portrait c.1840 of Benjamin Hick, founder of B. Hick & Sons by George Patten ARA (1801–1865)
Drawing of Benjamin Hick's patent 3-cylinder steam-carriage and disc wheel from Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, 1836.
Drawing of Benjamin Hick's patent 3-cylinder steam-carriage and disc wheel from Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, 1836.
B. Hick & Son 6 hp steam engine, mill-gear and ornamental column at the Great Exhibition. Photograph 1851 by Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811–1889) from the
B. Hick & Son 6 hp steam engine, mill-gear and ornamental column at the Great Exhibition. Photograph 1851 by Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811–1889) from the Reports of the Juries.
Entrepreneur, William Hargreaves JP c.1880, from a Photograph by Alex Bassano 25 Old Bond St. W. "Ink-Photo." Sprague & Co. London. Inscribed Mr Hargr
Entrepreneur, William Hargreaves JP c.1880, from a Photograph by Alex Bassano 25 Old Bond St. W. "Ink-Photo." Sprague & Co. London. Inscribed Mr Hargreaves Moss Bank Halliwell Bolton
George Forrester and Company
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George Forrester and Company was a British marine engine and locomotive manufacturer at Vauxhall Foundry in Liverpool, established by Scottish engineer George Forrester. The company opened in 1827 as
B. Hick and Sons
…son, John Hick; his second son, Benjamin Jr left the company after a year of its founding for partnership in a Liverpool company about 1834, possibly George Forrester & Co. In 1840 he filed a patent governor for B. Hick & Son using an Egyptian winged motif, that featured on the front page of Mechanics' Magazine. Hick's…
SS Liverpool by Samuel Walters On her first voyage to New York October 1838. Lieutenant R. J. Fayrer, RN Commander. Engines by George Forrester & Co.
SS Liverpool by Samuel Walters On her first voyage to New York October 1838. Lieutenant R. J. Fayrer, RN Commander. Engines by George Forrester & Co. An east-bound vessel of the Black Ball Line on the horizon.
PS Helen MacGregor, lithograph by George Hawkins (1819–1852) from a drawing by Thomas B. Horner, dedicated to Joseph Gee of Hull. "In some of the roug
PS Helen MacGregor, lithograph by George Hawkins (1819–1852) from a drawing by Thomas B. Horner, dedicated to Joseph Gee of Hull. "In some of the roughest seas, so well known between Hull and Hamburg, the engines of the Helen Mac Gregor do not seem to suffer the slightest strain in working".