Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Major Drapkin and Co

From Graces Guide

of London

Manufacturers of Greys Cigarettes.

1900 'Major Drapkin, Samuel Barnett, Hill Levartovsky and Lazar Fieldcovitch trading as Major Drapkin and Company of 12 and 13 Aldgate...'[1] Note: All four partners were born in Russia and became naturalised UK citizens.

1915 A branch of the United Kingdom Tobacco Co.[2]

1930 Major Drapkin and Co., Ltd., cigarette manufacturers, of Middlesex Lane (Petticoat Lane).[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Evening Standard - Thursday 14 June 1900
  2. Yorkshire Evening Post - Tuesday 18 July 1916
  3. Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 03 March 1930