Shaw, John, & Sons Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Shaw & Crane
- Thomson, T E, & Co
- Shaw, Sir Charles E
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Calcutta, India
- Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Sectors:
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Hand inc edge tool production
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Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc
Ironmongery, tools, holloware, hardware, stoves, grates, etc, distribution
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Mechanical engineering
Machine tool production
Notes:
Traced origins to John Shaw, 1782-1859, who by 1805 was in business as a hardware factor selling metal products of the Back Country to wholesalers and retailers throughout country. Between 1815-48 traded as Shaw & Crane and from then as John Shaw & Sons. 1835 established an associated business at Calcutta, T E Thomson & Co. Incorporated 1887. From 1890s grew by acquisition and emerged as a machine tool and hand tool manufacturer under Sir Charles E Shaw, 1859-1942. Continued an an independent engineering business until 1970.
Publications:
- Building the market. John Shaw of Wolverhampton and commercial travelling in early nineteenth century England by Popp, Andrew
- Entrepreneurial Families. Business, marriage and life in the early nineteenth century by Popp, Andrew
- Entrepreneurship and the organization of being. The case of the Shaws by Popp, Andrew, & Robin Holt
- From town to town. How commercial travel connected manufacturers and merchants in the Industrial Revolution by Popp, Andrew
- 'From Wolverhampton to Calcutta. The low origins of merchant enterprise' in R Lee (ed), Commerce and Culture. Nineteenth century business elites by Popp, Andrew
- John Shaw & Sons Ltd. A century of progress in Hardwareland, 1795-1895 by Unknown
- Presence of entrepreneurial opportunity by Popp, Andrew, & Robin Holt
- Sesquicestum; being a century and a half of progress. John Shaw & Sons Wolverhampton Ltd and their subsidiary companies by Unknown
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Shaw & Crane
- Thomson, T E, & Co
- Shaw, Sir Charles E
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Calcutta, India
- Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Sectors:
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Hand inc edge tool production
- Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Ironmongery, tools, holloware, hardware, stoves, grates, etc, distribution
- Mechanical engineering Machine tool production
Notes:
Traced origins to John Shaw, 1782-1859, who by 1805 was in business as a hardware factor selling metal products of the Back Country to wholesalers and retailers throughout country. Between 1815-48 traded as Shaw & Crane and from then as John Shaw & Sons. 1835 established an associated business at Calcutta, T E Thomson & Co. Incorporated 1887. From 1890s grew by acquisition and emerged as a machine tool and hand tool manufacturer under Sir Charles E Shaw, 1859-1942. Continued an an independent engineering business until 1970.Publications:
- Building the market. John Shaw of Wolverhampton and commercial travelling in early nineteenth century England by Popp, Andrew
- Entrepreneurial Families. Business, marriage and life in the early nineteenth century by Popp, Andrew
- Entrepreneurship and the organization of being. The case of the Shaws by Popp, Andrew, & Robin Holt
- From town to town. How commercial travel connected manufacturers and merchants in the Industrial Revolution by Popp, Andrew
- 'From Wolverhampton to Calcutta. The low origins of merchant enterprise' in R Lee (ed), Commerce and Culture. Nineteenth century business elites by Popp, Andrew
- John Shaw & Sons Ltd. A century of progress in Hardwareland, 1795-1895 by Unknown
- Presence of entrepreneurial opportunity by Popp, Andrew, & Robin Holt
- Sesquicestum; being a century and a half of progress. John Shaw & Sons Wolverhampton Ltd and their subsidiary companies by Unknown