In 1860, William Bissell was manufacturing a solid-chisel mortiser. By 1872 he had been succeeded by J. G. Bissell & Co.

From 1860-09-01 The Dublin Builder

Information Sources

• 1858 W. H. Dix & Co.'s Directory of Birmingham and Six Miles Round, page 726, section for Wolverhampton. "Bissell wm., merchant, factor, and whole ironmonger, Union st; h, Compton".
• 1861 Corporation General and Trades Directory of Birmingham, page 70. "Bissell William, manufacturer of hardware and ironmongery, Horseley fields".
• 1862 Official Catalog if the Industrial Department of the International Exhibition, Vol. I, page 37, has illustrations of the mortiser, flooring clamp, and lifting jack, exhibited by William Bissell of Union Street, Wolverhampton.
• From the program of the International Exhibition of 1862: "Bissell, William Union Street, Wolverhampton.—Flooring and bench cramp; machine for mortising wood; lifting jack."
• 1864 Williams's Manufacturers' Directory, for London and Principal Market Town in England, page 445, in listings for Wolverhampton: "Ironmongers. (Wholesale.) Bissel, W. Union-st. Patentee of flooring cramps, lifting jacks and proprietor of the equi-action and mortise locks; mortising machines, bench and vertical saw-frames".
• July 1865 The Farmer's Magazine, page 24, in an article about a "Meeting at Hereford" or the Bath and West of England Society. "Bissell, Wolverhampton.—Circular-saw bench; combined vertical saw frame and engine; moulding and planing, tenoning, hand lever, boring, and morticing machines; lifting jack and cramp."
• September 1865 The Farmer's Magazine, page 185, in an article on exhibits at the Plymouth Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England: "Bissell, W., Wolverhampton. Vertical saw frame and engine £88, circular-saw bench £27, mortising machine £14 10s., combined planing machine £100, tenoning machine £40, lifting jack 80s., bench cramp 28s."
• 1866-08-17 Engineering, page 120, in a listing of recent patents.

  (No. 2711, 10d.) W. B. Haigh, of Oldham, and William Bissell, of Wolverhampton, have taken a patent, which strikes us as untenable, for adding to planing machines for wood an extra box, with drawer and fixed knife, for finishing boards and mouldings. It appears to be the same fixed cutter as that proposed by Bramah, and patented in 1827 by Malcolm Muir.

• 1871-11-25 The Mechanics' Magazine, page 422. "Messrs. J. G. Bissell and Co., Wolverhampton, are making large quantities of rim locks on the 'equi-action' principle for the home market."
• 1871-12-09 The Mechanics Magazine, page 460.

  Messrs. J. G. Bissell and Co., Wolverhampton, are booking large orders for their patent mortising machine, which has a set of eight chisels, and will mortise six inches deep. This machine, which weighs 4 cwt., will take on the table work sixteen inches long by eight inches deep. It is in very extensive use throughout the country.

• 1891-08-28 London Gazette, page 4636, in a column of legal notices.

  Joseph Glover Bissell, Deceased.

  Pursuant to the Statute 22nd and 23rd Vic., cap. 35.

  Notice is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claims against the estate of Joseph Glover Bissell, late of 4, Parkdale, Tettenhall-road, Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, and also of Union-street, in Wolverhampton aforesaid, Whole Ironmonger, General Manufacturer of Hardware, and Factor, who carried on business under the style or firm of J. G. Bissell and Co. (and who died on the 13th of May, 1891, and whose will, with a codicil, was proved on 7th July, 1891, in he District Probate Registry at Lichfield, by Elizabeth Rudge Bissell and Henry Williams Ash, the executors thereof), are hereby required to send particulars in writing, of their claims to us, the undersigned, on or before the 9th day of October next; after which day the executors will distribute the assets of the deceased, having regard only to claims of which they shall then have had notice.—Dated 24th August, 1891.

  Flewker and Page, 80, Lichfield-street, Wolverhampton, Solicitors for the Executors.

• 1926-03-26 The Architect & Building News, page 31, text ad. "Locks and Builders' Ironmongery. S. Bissell & Son, Ltd., Union Street, Wolverhampton. Established 100 years."