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to install them in the Government Printing Office but also to furnish
a testimonial as to their efficiency.
The following year, extensions were added to
the Union Street works where land at the rear of the original four
cottages had been acquired. A second gold medal was earned at the
International Health Exhibition and the highest award at the Fisheries
Exhibition, both held in 1883.
The centenary of the firm passed almost
unnoticed. Family firms were then the rule rather than the exception
they have become today and William Hayward had been so many years
younger than Edward that he hardly remembered his own father or
anything of the long line of Haywards before that. But, the hundred
years' mark passed, the firm settled down to a long period of laurels
bestowed at many exhibitions.
In 1888, despite the considerable extensions
made shortly before, further building was necessary as an annexe was
added to cover the immediate requirements. It was plain, however,
that this must be merely a temporary measure and that with the present
trend of trade the new building would be outgrown before the turn of
the century.
Memories of the misguided Hamiltons were
recalled about this time with another infringement of Haywards' patent,
by the Pavement Light Company. The case was heard before Mr. Justice
Kay with similar favourable results. Mr. Carpmael, Counsel for Haywards,
instructed by Wilson, Bristow and Carpmael, was able on this occasion
to conduct his case, so to speak, "on his head." As the Hamiltons had
been, the Pavement Light Company was swallowed up in the mists of
litigation and was heard of no more.
In the daily administration of the partnership,
William Hayward and William Eckstein were almost imperceptibly changing
places. The last of the Haywards-- at least in the sense of this book,
other branches of the family having prospered elsewhere-- was well into
his sixties, whereas Eckstein was a young and vigorous engineer with new
methods and ideas. William Hayward was not a man to stand in the way of
these and there is every
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