Phoenix Foundry Co. Ltd

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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsManufacturers, machinery and equipmentHistoryEstablished in 1854 to manufacture mining machinery, this firm was incorporated in 1870 as the Phoenix Foundry Co. in order to manufacture railway locomotives. By the time it was superseded by the government's own Newport Workshops, Phoenix Foundary had made 357 locomotives.

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