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Thomas Astbury

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Thomas Astbury, a wealthy Smethwick ironfounder and cannon manufacturer[1].

On 2 September 1858 Arthur Keen married Astbury's daughter, Hannah, at Smethwick[2].

Astbury recognized the potential of the patent for a nut-making machine that Francis Watkins was trying to sell in Britain in 1856.

c.1856 Provided funding to establish the firm of Watkins and Keen at Victoria works, Rolfe Street, Smethwick.

1858 Thomas Astbury and Sons took over part of London works, Smethwick

By the mid-1860s the growing enterprise of Watkins and Keen displaced Astbury and Sons from London Works.


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Sources of Information

  1. Biography of Arthur Keen, by Barbara M. D. Smith, ODNB
  2. Biography of Arthur Keen, by Barbara M. D. Smith, ODNB
 
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