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GASKING PATENT DRIVING BELT AND LEATHER COMPANY Ltd.

Enfield, Middlesex


GASKING PATENT DRIVING BELT AND LEATHER COMPANY (LIMITED). Upon terms of an agreement of the 4th ult. this company proposes to purchase the various patents of Mr. Alfred John Gasking, of Lime-villa, Essex-road, Enfield, for the manufacture of bands or chains for the transmission of power. It was registered on the 14th ult, with a capital of £20,000, in £5 shares. The purchase consideration is £4,000 in fully-paid shares, and £200 cash. The subscribers are : J. Aldewinckle, manufacturing silversmith, 18, Hosier-lane; D. Gilsenon, road surveyor, Sydney-road, Enfield ; J. Chave Cox, woollen merchant's agent, 50, Claremont-road, Forest-gate ; S. Chase, flour salesman, Brougham-street, Birmingham ; F. H. Maberley, physician, Hunter's-lane, Birmingham : G. Barker, consulting engineer, 77, Colmore-road, Birmingham : and J. Aldewinckle, manufacturers' agent, 56, Basinghall-street. The number of directors is not to be less than three, nor more than seven ; qualification, 10 shares. The vendor is appointed managing director at a salary of £41. 13s. 4d. per month.

Source: The Furniture Gazette - 1st June 1886

This would be John Aldwinckle of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater of 18, Hosier Lane, the former premises of George Adams and Chawner & Co.

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MERCANTILE NOTICES

Messrs. John Aldwinckle and James Slater have admitted into partnership Messrs. Alfred T. Slater and Walter B. Slater, and state that the firm, which has been carried on under the style of Holland, Son, and Slater, will be altered to Holland, Aldwinckle, and Slater.

Source: Money Market Review - 21st April 1883

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An example of the work and mark of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater:








HA/&/S - London - 1912

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West Smithfield - Two Freehold Ground-rents of £138-10s each.

Whitechapel - Capital Freehold Shop, let on lease at £110 per annum.

MESSSRS. DEBENHAM, TEWSON, FARMER, and BRIDGEWATER will SELL these excellent FREEHOLD INVESTMENTS, at the Mart, on Tuesday, April 25, at Two, in separate lots, as follows:

Lots 1 and 2. Two first-class Ground-rents of £138-10s, per annum, each, secured upon, 18 and 14 and 15, Hosier-lane, West Smithfield, forming the major portion of the manufacturing premises of Messrs. Holland, Aldwinkle, and Slater, Silversmiths, and comprising three substantial modern buildings of three and four storeys and basements, with large factories and workshops in the rear. Demised by two leases to Messrs. Holland and Co., with reversions to the rack rentals in about fifty-one years.

Lot 3.—Shop and Dwelling-house, 47, High-street, comprising eight bed-rooms, kitchen, shop, and basement: frontage 19ft. 7in., depth 42ft.; leased until 1907 at £110 per annum.

Particulars of S. PILLEY, Esq., Solicitor, 29, Bedford-row, and Ealing : and of the Auctioneers, 80. Cheapside.

Source: The Law Times - 15th April 1893

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Details of John Aldwinckle as a director of the Amana (Wentworth) Gold Mining Company:


Amana (Wentworth) Gold Mining Co. Ltd. - New South Wales - 1892

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James Slater being examined before a committee of the House of Commons regarding the purification of sulphur from the gas supply used in London:

Mr. James Slater, examined by Mr. O'Hara:

I am a partner in the firm of Holland, Son, and Slater, carrying on business at No. 16, Jewin Crescent, as manufacturing silversmiths. when I was first in business I did not burn gas. As my business increased, and buyers came in late in the evening, I was obliged to take to it, but though I took to it, I did it very unwillingly, and used it with very great distaste to myself. I found the evil effects of it, even in fine weather, upon my goods. Those effects were most seriously aggravated in foggy weather; gas and fog combined, I think, are the two evils that we have to contend with in London. In less than half an hour after the gas has been lighted, the goods in the upper part of the room in glass cases, near the ceiling, suffer the soonest; but to me it only seems to be a question of time and the size of the room. You have only to get on a pair of steps immediately the gas is lighted, and put your head up to the ceiling, and you feel the heat. After the gas has been lighted a little longer you need not go so near the ceiling to feel the effects from the gas. If you have goods on a table, at the level of that at which we are now sitting, they will be affected. You may say, " Then why not ventilate your room?" That is another weak point in London; people do not ventilate their rooms. I keep fires sufficiently large to keep the whole place thoroughly warm, which is of the highest importance with a stock like mine. I tried gas for the purpose, and had to abandon it in less than a month, for though I obtained heat, the smell was excessively unpleasant.

Cross-examined by Mr. Philbbick: I know it is, as a matter of general opinion, that the atmosphere of London and other large towns always contains a portion of sulphuric acid, and I am perfectly aware of the injurious effects produced by exposing plated goods to it.

The Chairman : Was the injury that you described, as occurring in rooms where you did burn gas, a kind of injury that would arise from the action of sulphuric acid upon plated silver?

Witness: Without being a chemist or a scientific person, I say decidedly so; and if the committee will permit me, I will give a very striking illustration of the difficulty I had to contend with. In my early career, when I objected to the use of gas, I had the misfortune to have some cases wrapped in a peculiar kind of paper. The goods got perfectly black. I had the paper tested, and it was coloured by some mercurial process. I had it removed and plain paper furnished, and my goods were kept with very great satisfaction. Then I introduced gas into the place, and in a smaller degree I had precisely the same results that I had had with the mercurial paper. I am not attempting to go into the question whether mercury and sulphuric acid have the same effects, but I am speaking of a practical result—that, upon the introduction of gas, my goods, if exposed to the action of gas, become tarnished in the same way, and the effect of this matter was so insidious, that instead of its being able to be removed quickly, it took the men some considerable labour. Our goods are polished —that is, polished by a man with rouge on the ball of his hand, and he had to do that. That I suffered from most.

And you attribute that to the effect of the gas, do you ?—I make no doubt of it.

Do you desire that it should be purified of this sulphurous element ?—I certainly do; and I am very much interested in gas operations. I am very sorry that there should be any depreciation in the quality of the gas, because when a fog comes on suddenly, there is a very short supply, and there is very great difficulty in getting adequate light. In my own house I would not have gas if it were given to me.

But you are not analyst enough yourself to say to what element in the gas this was due ?—No; I should be sorry to say anything but what comes under my own practical experience.

Sulphur Compounds in Gas: Report of the Proceedings Before a Committee of the House of Commons on the Crystal Palace District Gas and the Gaslight & Coke Company Bills - 1877

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Henry Holland & Son - London - 1863

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Mr. John Aldwinkle, of Hosier-lane, manufacturing silversmith, left personalty valued at £20,187.

Source: The Statist - 29th September 1894

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An example of the work and mark of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater:


JA/TS - London - 1887

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Another example of the work and mark of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, a drum mustard assayed at London 1910:








HA/&/S - London - 1910

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Another example of the work and mark of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, a basket assayed at London 1897:








TS/WS/HH - London


TS/WS/HH (Thomas Alfred Slater, Walter Brindsley Slater & Henry Arthur Holland) - London - 1897

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Candlesticks by Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, assayed at London 1886:






JA/TS (John Aldwinkle & Thomas Slater) - London - 1886

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An example of the mark of Henry Holland:


H·H - London - 1859

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An example of the work and mark of Henry Holland, a large mustard-pot, assayed at London in 1839:








H·H - London - 1839

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Another example of the work and mark of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, a ladle assayed at London 1905:






HA/&/S - London - 1905

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Aesthetic Christening cutlery set by Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, assayed at London 1883:












JA/JS (John Aldwinkle & James Slater) - London - 1883

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A dinner fork by Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, assayed at London 1894:






JA/TS (John Aldwinkle & Thomas Slater) - London - 1894

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An Apostle spoon by Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater, assayed at London 1890:










JA/TS (John Aldwinkle & Thomas Slater) - London - 1890

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A walk through the galleries of the large firms in the silver colony, such as Messrs. Walker and Hall on the Viaduct, Messrs. Silray, Hall,
and Co., and several others in Ely Place, and all down Charterhouse Street, show that they are fully prepared for spring trade. Nor would those in " the Garden ' ' like to be considered behind them in any way while a few hundred yards further east we have the immense factories of Messrs. Holland, Aldwinckle, and Slater, and Messrs. Barnard. In walking through these galleries, which we have been accustomed to perambulate " from our youth up," one cannot help being struck with the different lines upon which they have all developed, and, of course, the different class of goods in the same sterling-metal ; each has seemed to make a speciality. What an artistic and intellectual treat it is to be allowed to go through the cabinets of sketches of magnificent master-pieces, still retained in the possession of Messrs. Holland, Aldwinckle, and Slater; the countless castings, pictures, in metal of every action almost that has taken place under the sun, and above it, too, for the matter of that. With these artistic mosaics no emergency could arise for a trophy or presentation piece which could not be met in the shortest possible time at the minimum cost. At the present moment there are before us five letters from various parts of the country asking us to recommend firms to execute special orders, the lowest of which is £50. We take this opportunity of assuring the retail trade that we are always willing to give them the best advice in our power. We might also remark that we have several letters again this month from abroad, asking for the addresses of good silver novelty houses, which we should be pleased to forward to any manufacturer.

Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st April 1892

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