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134 ADVERTISEMENTS.
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES.
WEIGHING MACHINE MANUFACTORY.
WOOD & SONS,
Standard Scale Beam, Weighing Machine, Coffee & Sugar Mill Manufacturers,
and General Furnishing Ironmongers,
14 and 18 STOCKWELL STREET, GLASGOW,
RESPECTFULLY intimate that they have at present on hand a veiy superior
Assortment of STANDARD SCALE BEAMS, SINGLE and DOUBLE
WEIGHING MACHINES (Double Machine £5), COFFEE, PEPPER, and SUGAR
MILLS, COPPER and PEWTER MEASURES, BRASS and IRON WEIGHTS,
&c. &c, which they are selling at Greatly Reduced Prices.
Wood & Sons manufacture, upon the most improved principles, every description
of Platform Lever and Steelyard Weighing Machines, to weigh from 1 Cwt. to 5 Tons,
particularly adapted for Railways and Merchants, by whom they have been highly
approved of and recommended (Platform Lever Machine to weigh 1 Ton, £11 — Gart
Steelyard to weigh 1 Ton, £7.) These being of the best Scotch Manufacture, oc-
cupying little space, warranted not to be surpassed in accuracy or durability, and
now so greatly reduced in price, they have great pleasure in recommending.
W. & S. solicit the attention of Parties furnishing to their present very cheap
Stock of Ironmongery, consisting of Kitchen Ranges, with Ovens, from 20s. ; Register
Grates, all patterns, from 15s. ; Fire Irons ; Trays, a beautiful set of 3, for 17s. 6d. ;
Brass Kettles, 7s. ; Dish Covers (set of 6, only 15s.), Cutlery, Goblets, &c. &c, very
cheap.
N.B. — Gas Lustres, Pipes, and Apparatus, furnished and neatly fitted up, and all
Branches of General Smith and Tin Work executed at the Works, 1 8 Stockwell Street.
PICKFOMD & C©.,
CARRIERS & RAILWAY AGENTS,
120 BRUNSWICK COURT, BRUNSWICK STREET, GLASGOW,
COLLECT and deliver Goods on behalf of the respective Companies in Newcastle,
South and North Shields, Sunderland, Durham, Leeds, Bradford, London,
Birmingham, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester,
Liverpool, and the other principal points on the Main Lines of Railway. Goods
should be ordered to the care of PICKFORD & Co,, and they will meet with every
attention and despatch.
PICKFORD & Co. are Carriers on their own account, to and from the chief points
on the Great Western, South-Western, South-Eastern, South Devon, Eastern Counties,
and Brighton Railways ; and also by Water along the River Trent and Humber, at
Hull and Gainsborough, and by Canal to the Iron Districts in the neighbourhood of
Tipton and Wolverhampton.
PICKFORD & Co. beg to inform their Friends and the Public, that they transact
Custom-House business in Liverpool, London, and Southampton ; and ship to, and
receive Goods from, all parts of the world, clearing them at the Custom-House, effect-
ing Insurances, &c , at moderate charges, and also act as Master Porters at Liverpool.
London Receiving-Houses.
CASTLE, WOOD STREET, CHEAPSIDE.
RAILWAY STATION, CAMDEN TOWN.
395 OXFORD STREET.
158 REGENT STREET.
WHARFS, 1 and 2 CITY ROAD BASIN.
12 SOUTH WHARF ROAD, PADDINGTON.
UNION HALL, UNION STREET, BOROUGH.
1 HUNTER STREET, OLD KENT ROAD.