Bernhard Samuelson Takes Over Business in Banbury

Bernhard Samuelson took over the business of the late James Gardner at Banbury and purchasing a site. By 1849, the Britannia Works would be operational and manufacturing a range of agricultural products. The company must have soon afterwards started to manufacture Budding-type Lawnmowers because they exhibited one at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London. In doing so they became the second known company in England to manufacture one.

"Cake & Cockhorse", a local Banbury Historical Society Publication, No.4, Summer 1969, records:

"James Gardner inventor of the patent turnip cutter had died. He had run premises at Fish Street Banbury. Bernhard Samuelson bought his patents for the turnip cutter and other intellectual works, establishing the Britannia Ironworks at Banbury around 1848/9."