Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,356 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Anchor Chemical Co

From Graces Guide
1961.

of Clayton Lane, Clayton, Manchester.

1892 Company established by Thomas R. Hewlett.

1907 Incorporated as a Limited Company.

1914 Chemical manufacturers. Specialities: India rubber substitutes, chloride of sulphur, bisulphide of carbon, reclaimed rubbers. [1]

1961 JV with Marbon Chemical of USA to establish plant at Grangemouth to make Marbon Cycolac polymers and other synthetic resins[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. The Times, Oct 07, 1961