Samuel Jones and Co
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of Bridewell Place, London, EC4. Telephone: City 9407 (8 lines). Cables: "Noncurling, London". Mills in Camberwell, Surrey and Tillicoultry, Scotland. (1929)
of New Bridge Street, London, EC4. Telephone: Central 6500. Cables: "Non-curling, London". (1947)
- 1810 Company founded,
- 1868 Samuel Jones purchased 67 and 69 Peckham Grove for use as the centre for his stationary outfit, Samuel Jones and Co Ltd.
- The factory started with number 67 and by the 1920s had expanded into a complex of buildings that spanned Southampton Way and would be one of the key employers in the area.
- Samuel Jones ran the company for a further six years before he relinquished control of the organisation to his son James. However the company continued under Samuel’s name and thrived from it's Peckham base.
- 1905 The factory started producing non-curling gummed paper. This enabled the firm to produce blank paper with a gummed back, as opposed to putting the gummed adhesive on printed sheets. (The gummed paper was predominately used for posters but also used on stamps, and in more recent incarnations such as post-it notes and stickers). The paper was mass produced and distributed to printers to use as they wished. Business increased and the company expanded.
- 1912 The factory and firm adopted the Camberwell Beauty butterfly emblem. (Two specimens were first caught in England in 1748, in Coldharbour Lane). The firm adopted the logo to demonstrate the possibility of printing several different colours on one piece of paper.
- 1920 Private company.
- 1924 The firm won a ten year contract to gum British postage stamps.
- 1929 British Industries Fair Advert for Noncurling Gummed Papers; various other papers; 'and many Stationery lines'. Manufacturers of Gummed and Coated Papers, Cover Papers, Fancy Papers. "Nulli Secundus" Stationery Lines, including Bottle Gum, Passe-Partout** Materials, Gummed Tapes for Household and Commercial Use, Sealing Machines, Label Damping Devices. (Stationery Section - Stand No. R.23) [1]
- 1937 Adhesives and adhesive tape manufacturers. [2]
- 1945 They became the first company to produce self-adhesive labels in the UK.
- 1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Gummed and Coated Papers, Gumstrip Sealing Tapes and Sealing Machines, Printed Gumstrip, Resin Coated and Impregnated papers, Adhesives, Self-Adhesive Tapes, Stationery Products, Fancy Papers, Envelopes, Printings, Writings, Cover Papers. (Olympia, 1st Floor, Stand No. H.2141) [3]
- 1960s They worked with London Transport to develop oxide ticket material which was used for tube and bus tickets. They also experimented with the development of fire extinguishers, and own patents in this area.
- 1961 Manufacturers of gummed and coated papers and adhesives, also wholesale stationers. 2,700 employees. [4]
- 1982 The firm left the area, but the mosaic of the Camberwell Beauty remains to adorn the side of Lynn Boxing Club on Wells Way.
- Samuel Jones and Co became part of the Wiggins Teape Group and in turn, part of Princeton Packaging.
- Note: **
- Passe-partout = a kind of simple picture frame, usually pasteboard, the picture being fixed by strips pasted over the edges. [5]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1929 British Industries Fair Advert facing 166; and p93
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p150
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Chambers English Dictionary
