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Smith, Fleming & Company
This was a firm of East India merchants consisting of John Smith, John Fleming, Robert McIlwraith, and William Nicol. In September 1873 they acquired British and other foreign rights to Edison's automatic telegraph inventions but the agreement was sufficiently broad that they later claimed rights to his quadruplex as well.