Spencer Chapman & Messel Chemical Works
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Operation
1872
Location
Located in
Produced
Oleum, Sulphuric Acid, Hydrochloric Acid, Nitric Acid, Battery Acid
|1872 |1878 |Squire, Chapman & Co |-
|1878 |1899 |Chapman, Messel and Co |-
|1899 |1965 |Spencer Chapman & Messel Ltd |-
|1872
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Description
"1872 William Stevens Squire (1834–1906) of Dunn, Squire and Co, initially at Stratford in Essex, formed the company Squire, Chapman & Co. with Mr Spencer Chapman, premises at North Woolwich Rd, Silvertown, as makers of sulphuric acid[1]. Squire took his assistant Rudolph Messel with him to the new business. Messel developed a process for the manufacture of fuming sulphuric acid, which was in great demand as a raw material in the dyestuffs industry. The key to the process was the combination of pure sulphur dioxide and oxygen gases using a platinized pumice catalyst. The process was patented by Squire in 1875." http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Spencer_Chapman_and_Messel
I can't really find any information on when they stopped manufacturing at this location. According to the Times, after the merger sometime in 1964-1966 to form Berk Spencer Acids, a new works was going to be built at Stratford. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS369583759&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0