Penney & Co

Penney's Improved Potato Separator

Penney & Co of Lincoln were wireworkers who made principally screens for cleaning and grading corn, malt and other produce.  John & William Penney started their business at 16 Broadgate in 1855, as general agricultural merchants.  

John carried on with the business after William died in 1866.  The company was renamed Penney & Co and carried on business as wireworkers, relocated at about this time to City Iron and Wire Works, 6 Broadgate. 

John Penney died in 1871

In the 1880s the workforce grew to over 120.

In the 1890s the firm expanded to 37 Waterside North as an iron and steel works

Their range of products extended to wheelbarrows and garden furniture, but the screens were dominant into the twentieth century.

Penney & Co amalgamated with Porter & Co about 1910 to become Penney & Porter (Engineers) Ltd