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succeeded him at these works, but his patterns apparently went 

 to P. N. Russell — as the author who had charge of the pattern 

 store in the fifties — well remembers Orr's brand on flour mill 

 patterns at Russell's. Mr. George Coke's engineering establish- 

 ment in 1840 was also in Bathurst-street. 



The Russell family of engineers — of whom Mr. Peter Nicol 

 Russell, founder of the P. N. Russell School of Engineering at 

 the Sydney University, was the most distinguished member — came 

 from Kirkcaldy, in Fifeshire, Scotland, and with their father 

 Robert Russell the elder, first settled in Hobart Town in 1836; 

 but a few years later they came on to Sydney and had an engineer- 

 ing shop in Queen's Place. After the death of his father, Mr. 

 Peter Nicol Russell, the second son, commenced business on his 

 own account in 1842 by purchasing the foundry, situated on 

 the south side of the Royal Hotel, from the executors of Mr. 

 James Blanch. Here Peter Nicol Russell established the 

 Sydney Foundry and Engineering Works, while Robert, his elder 

 brother went to Manilla to erect some machinery, and died in 

 1849. John the third son, was for some time employed at- Daw- 

 son's works in lower George-street, and afterwards for a few years 

 traded to the islands in the "Coquette" and "Sarah Ann." Peter 

 Nicol Russell's business so increased in George-street, that he 

 established a branch works for engineering and boilermaking at 

 Day's wharf in Sussex-street, with his younger brother George 

 Russell as manager. By 1854 the business had extended to such 

 a degree that on January 1st, 1855, the firm of P. N. Russell & Co. 

 was launched with establishments at the Sydney Foundry and 

 the Sussex-street Engine Works, as iron and brass founders, 

 engineers, boilermakers, and blacksmiths. Mr. P. N. Russell's 

 partners were his brothers John and George, and Mr. James 

 Wilkie Dunlop, a Scotch engineer from Leith. The senior 

 partner, Mr. P. N. Russell left for England shortly after the 

 new firm was launched, in order to recruit his health, and to 

 make arrangements for shipping the supplies required for the ever 

 increasing business, and Mr. Dunlop (a nephew of Wilkie the 



