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“Another early factory, for winding silk, was built by Louis Frébout in 1815 and gave rise to Factory Lane. From c. 1820 it was leased for lace-making by Messrs. Lacy & Fisher, who had some 300 employees. In 1837 it was taken over by the new London Caoutchouc Co.,(fn. 108) which had been empowered to maintain imports of India rubber and promote its use (fn. 109) and which was later known as William Warne & Co., (fn. 110) from a partner who died in 1861. The rubber mills were extended after one of the four-storeyed blocks had been burned down in 1839 and included a 160-feet high stack, demolished in 1903. Part of the site was sold in 1904 to the Society of Licensed Victuallers, who built Dowsett Road, but the company continued to make rubber solution and a wide range of articles in Tottenham until it completed a move to Barking after the First World War.” http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp333-339  
 
“Another early factory, for winding silk, was built by Louis Frébout in 1815 and gave rise to Factory Lane. From c. 1820 it was leased for lace-making by Messrs. Lacy & Fisher, who had some 300 employees. In 1837 it was taken over by the new London Caoutchouc Co.,(fn. 108) which had been empowered to maintain imports of India rubber and promote its use (fn. 109) and which was later known as William Warne & Co., (fn. 110) from a partner who died in 1861. The rubber mills were extended after one of the four-storeyed blocks had been burned down in 1839 and included a 160-feet high stack, demolished in 1903. Part of the site was sold in 1904 to the Society of Licensed Victuallers, who built Dowsett Road, but the company continued to make rubber solution and a wide range of articles in Tottenham until it completed a move to Barking after the First World War.” http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp333-339  
  
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“The company's operations have been attended with the desired success in making elastic India rubber webs, surgical bandages, braces, garters, waist belts, shoulder straps, glove ties, &c., stays, boots, laced stockings, &c., ; saddle girths, horse rollers, waterproof cloth for coats, cloaks, capes, hammer cloths of carriages, &c., ; canvas for tarpauling, cart tilts, rick cloths, &c., ; tubes for engine pipes or hose, &c., &c., ;  block rubber and sheet rubber, rubber for billiard table cushions, caoutchouc paste for rendering boots and shoes water proof - for varnishes and solutions; caoutchouc paint, elastic bands for driving machinery, &c.” https://books.google.ca/books?id=t64LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false  
 
“The company's operations have been attended with the desired success in making elastic India rubber webs, surgical bandages, braces, garters, waist belts, shoulder straps, glove ties, &c., stays, boots, laced stockings, &c., ; saddle girths, horse rollers, waterproof cloth for coats, cloaks, capes, hammer cloths of carriages, &c., ; canvas for tarpauling, cart tilts, rick cloths, &c., ; tubes for engine pipes or hose, &c., &c., ;  block rubber and sheet rubber, rubber for billiard table cushions, caoutchouc paste for rendering boots and shoes water proof - for varnishes and solutions; caoutchouc paint, elastic bands for driving machinery, &c.” https://books.google.ca/books?id=t64LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false  
  
I can't find a clear source stating when the company changed from London Caoutchouc Co to William Warne & Co. - somewhere between 1843 - 1856, just judging by articles in the Times.
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[[Caoutchouc]] was imported from [[Straits Settlements]], [[British India]], [[Ceylon]], and [[Brazil]].
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I can't find a clear source stating when the company changed from London Caoutchouc Co to William Warne & Co. It must have been somewhere between 1843 - 1856, just judging by articles in the Times.
  
  
 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016003237915035/part/first-page-pdf
 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016003237915035/part/first-page-pdf

Revision as of 17:16, 20 April 2016



Operation

1815 to 1907


Location

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Located in

London


Produced

elastic India rubber webs, surgical bandages, braces, garters, waist belts, shoulder straps, glove ties, stays, boots, laced stockings, saddle girths, horse rollers, waterproof cloth for coats, cloaks, capes, hammer cloths of carriages, canvas for tarpauling, cart tilts, rick cloths, tubes for engine pipes or hose, block rubber and sheet rubber, rubber for billiard table cushions, caoutchouc paste for rendering boots and shoes water proof, varnishes and solutions, caoutchouc paint, elastic bands for driving machinery


Used Raw Materials

Caoutchouc


|1815 |1820 |Louis Frébout |-


|1820 |The date "{{{to_date}}}" was not understood.The date "{{{to_date}}}" was not understood. |Messrs. Lacy & Fisher |-


|1837 |The date "{{{to_date}}}" was not understood.The date "{{{to_date}}}" was not understood. |London Caoutchouc Co |-


|The date "{{{from_date}}}" was not understood.The date "{{{from_date}}}" was not understood. |1907 |William Warne & Co |-


|1815 |1837 |Rope and Fiber Industries |-


|1837 |1907 |Rubber & Gutta Percha Industry |-

Description

“Another early factory, for winding silk, was built by Louis Frébout in 1815 and gave rise to Factory Lane. From c. 1820 it was leased for lace-making by Messrs. Lacy & Fisher, who had some 300 employees. In 1837 it was taken over by the new London Caoutchouc Co.,(fn. 108) which had been empowered to maintain imports of India rubber and promote its use (fn. 109) and which was later known as William Warne & Co., (fn. 110) from a partner who died in 1861. The rubber mills were extended after one of the four-storeyed blocks had been burned down in 1839 and included a 160-feet high stack, demolished in 1903. Part of the site was sold in 1904 to the Society of Licensed Victuallers, who built Dowsett Road, but the company continued to make rubber solution and a wide range of articles in Tottenham until it completed a move to Barking after the First World War.” http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp333-339

“William Warne & Co Ltd was established in 1837 as a private company to manufacture rubber products. In 1895, the company became a joint stock company, the directors then being Edward Gerard Coles (Chairman), Ernest Harry Coles, George Frederick Spencer Warne, Oscar Edwin Coles, and James Burbridge; Ernest. F.Spencer Warne acted as the Company Secretary. The company factory was in Tottenham, Middlesex, with registered offices at 29 Gresham Street in the City of London. In 1907 the company purchased land in Barking and built a new factory there (India Rubber Mills) which became its headquarters.” http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb0350-bd9

“The company's operations have been attended with the desired success in making elastic India rubber webs, surgical bandages, braces, garters, waist belts, shoulder straps, glove ties, &c., stays, boots, laced stockings, &c., ; saddle girths, horse rollers, waterproof cloth for coats, cloaks, capes, hammer cloths of carriages, &c., ; canvas for tarpauling, cart tilts, rick cloths, &c., ; tubes for engine pipes or hose, &c., &c., ; block rubber and sheet rubber, rubber for billiard table cushions, caoutchouc paste for rendering boots and shoes water proof - for varnishes and solutions; caoutchouc paint, elastic bands for driving machinery, &c.” https://books.google.ca/books?id=t64LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false

Caoutchouc was imported from Straits Settlements, British India, Ceylon, and Brazil.

I can't find a clear source stating when the company changed from London Caoutchouc Co to William Warne & Co. It must have been somewhere between 1843 - 1856, just judging by articles in the Times.


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016003237915035/part/first-page-pdf