Deletion of Edward Borrows and Sons

Comment: added one book source. pass 
Stance: keep
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Comment: Andy Dingly, please .  Doing otherwise "seems pointlessly damaging to the encyclopedia and more vindictive than constructive," as you said
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Comment: The worst case here is merger into James Cross and Company which started the business as a spinoff from the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway.  There are therefore |alternatives to deletion which we prefer per 
Stance: keep
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Comment: I think we are going to need offline sources for this. It would now come under  or , and I don't think that there are enough sources available online to show that it meets either (as far as I have seen so far - I may be wrong). The only newspaper results I've found are a report of a fire, and and advertisement for its sale in 1912, both of which are standard coverage and don't count for . I think it's quite likely that there are offline sources, as steam trains and steam engines are specialist fields of interest which have resulted in many books and specialist magazines. Two books which come up in a google search, but which have no preview so I don't know if that's just by association or because they do actually cover this firm, are ''British Steam Locomotive Builders'' by James W. Lowe (first published in 1975, republished 2014), and ''The Golden Age of Steam Locomotive Building'' by Philip Atkins (1999). I notice that, although the article has existed for nearly 2 years, it has no project affiliations on its Talk page, and no assessments, which seems strange. How do we bring it to the attention of relevant projects, like ikiProject_UK_Railways
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