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John Thom Ltd.Biography Biography
Engineering company specialising in the manufacturing of water pumping equipment and installing of wells. John G. Thom (b. c1860) was listed as a well engineer and employer living in Eccles in the 1911 census. The firm was based in a small works located by the Bridgewater Canal, close to Nasmyth Wilson's Bridgewater Foundry. An advertisement dating to 1949 demonstrates the firm's continued operation in Patricroft.

Scope and Content
One trade literature catalogue advertising water raising appliances from John Thom Ltd, maker of artesian well, boring plants, pumps, engines etc. dating to 1907. The catalogue contains additional enclosures of four letters relating to health and pensions insurance and unemployment pensions, dating to 1940-1942.
Language
English
Archival history
Provenance unknown.
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum

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John Thom Ltd.Biography Biography
Engineering company specialising in the manufacturing of water pumping equipment and installing of wells. John G. Thom (b. c1860) was listed as a well engineer and employer living in Eccles in the 1911 census. The firm was based in a small works located by the Bridgewater Canal, close to Nasmyth Wilson's Bridgewater Foundry. An advertisement dating to 1949 demonstrates the firm's continued operation in Patricroft.

Subject
Water
Boring
Artesian wells
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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