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JONES LABELLED MACHINES
HAND MACHINES
PRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY
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The Jones lock-stitch patent, or Jones Hand Machine as named by Jones & Co., was probably first manufactured in 1874 circa. Jones Hand Machines were also named as "cat-back", often called "serpentine" or "swan neck".
This design was also sold under the name of "Empress of India", manufactured by the Canada Sewing Machine Co. (Hamilton, Canada), the "Eclipse", manufactured by The Eclipse Machine Company of Oldham (Shepherd, Rothwell & Hough) and the "Favourite".
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1879 c.
THOMSON'S SEWING MACHINE
DEPOT
LOWTHER ST. KENDAL
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market village and civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it lies some 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Windermere, 19 miles (31 km) north of Lancaster, 23 miles (37 km) north-east of Barrow-in-Furness and 38 miles (61 km) north-west of Skipton, in the valley (dale) of the River Kent, from which comes its name. The 2011 census counted a population of 28,586, making it the third largest settlement in Cumbria after Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. Kendal today is known mainly as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly in the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname "Auld Grey Town".
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1879 ?
"ECLIPSE SEWING MACHINE"
Shepherd, Rothwell & Hough
Picture from Needlebar
1887
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Emanuel Shepherd, Fred Rothwell, James E. Hough and Tom Rothwell, as Sewing Machine Manufacturers, at Oldham Sewing Machine Works and 92, Yorkshire Street, Oldham, in the county of Lancaster and at other places, under the style or firm of Shepherd, Rothwell & Hough, was dissolved, by mutual consent, on the 3rd day of November instant, as from 31st day of October last. The business will in future be continued by the said Fred Rothwell and Tom Rothwell, who will pay all the debts due by the said firm.
November 3, 1887
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1883 c.
TAYLOR'S
HAND MACHINE
Reciprocating Shuttle (RS)
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1884 c.
FAVOURITE
Bridgnorth is a town in Shropshire, England. The Severn Valley splits it into a High Town and Low Town, the upper town on the right bank and the lower on the left bank of the River Severn. Bridgnorth is about 90 miles south of Guide Bridge, near Manchester, where Jones & Co.'s factory was located.
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1895 c.
A. R. DOWNS & Co.
A Jones' Hand Machine with the A. R. DOWNS & Co. - EAST DEREHAM - Trade Mark with the effigy of William Cowper, an English poet from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
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1895
JOSEPH WATSON & SONS Ltd
Whitehall Soap Works - Leeds
Joseph Watson & Sons
Founded in 1830 by Joseph Watson, the firm moved in 1861 to a site west of the Canal Basin, between Whitehall Road and the river. This was one of the largest soap works in England, employing around 750 people and manufacturing six hundred tons of soap a week in 1893.
They made brands such as "Watson's Matchless Cleanser" and "Venus Soap" and the firm was known as "Soapy Joe's". The firm imported oil, resin and tallow, some of which was stored in the Dark Arches causing a disastrous fire there in 1892. They also made glycerine for dynamite manufacture and dealt in hides and skins. Watson's was sold to Lever's in 1917 and became Elida Gibbs in 1971, although it was still known as "Soapy Joe's". It closed in 1987, when the company moved to a new site at Seacroft.
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