Groom & Tattersall

The company was founded in 1900 by Alfred Rishworth Tattersall (1863-July 1949) as Messrs. Groom and Tattersall, Ltd.,^[2] although the oldest records go back to 1876.^[3] On 27 April 1918, Groom & Tattersall, Limited was registered at Station Works Tiffield Road in Towcester, Northamptonshire.^[4]

Alfred Rishworth Tattersall invented an improved apparatus for distilling wood, peat and other substances,^[5] and a centrifugal dresser.^[6] He received in 1917 the John Scott Award on behalf of City of Philadelphia for his Midget Marvel Flour Mill.^[7] This was a small and simple flour mill for farming communities, in which water mills had been abandoned.^[8] The company built for instance the Petrolia petrol locomotive for the Blakesley Miniature Railway.