accramans

Updated: May 21, 2025

Thus he wrote and sent illustrative sketches of his hammer to Accramans and Morgan of Bristol, to the late Benjamin Hick and Rushton and Eckersley of Bolton, to Howard and Ravenhill of Rotherhithe, and other firms; but unhappily bad times for the iron trade had set in; and although all to whom he communicated his design were much struck with its simplicity and obvious advantages, the answer usually given was "We have not orders enough to keep in work the forge-hammers we already have, and we do not desire at present to add any new ones, however improved."

Samuel Smiles - Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers