1887, Thomas Bradford & Co, Crescent Iron Works, Salford, Manchester Letter: Laundry Machinery.

Likely transcription, though accuracy may require checking.

Dear Sir,

Our representative at the Exhibition requested us to write you respecting Steam Laundry Machinery about which you were good enough to enquire, and we have now the pleasure to enclose you our illustrated list of the same.

This class of machinery is, however, one for which we prefer to quote specially, and if you could therefore say to which machines your enquiry refers, we should be very pleased to give you a special estimate for the same. If agreeable to you, we should be very glad to have an opportunity of tendering for the whole of the plant of your proposed Laundry, for which purpose it would be necessary for us to have a plan of the building and to know what existing fittings there are.

We should then have great pleasure in getting out a suitable scheme and coming over and seeing you personally upon the matter.

This, of course, would be entirely at our own expense, as we find this mode of treating enquiries such as your own more satisfactory both to our customers and to ourselves.

Waiting the favour of your reply, we are

Yours faithfully…