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of Belmont Works, Battersea, London, SW11

of Threadneedle Street, London (1908)

Price's Patent Candle Co with works at London, Liverpool and Manchester.

Price's Candles, founded in 1830, is a United Kingdom manufacturer and retailer of candles. The firm is headquartered in Bedford and holds the Royal Warrant for the supply of candles.

It is now the largest candle manufacturer in the UK. They hold an important place in the technological history of candle making.

  • 1830 E. Price and Co was founded by William Wilson, and his business partners, John Studholme Brownrigg, John Cockerell and Sir George Gerard de Hochpied Larpent, and originally consisted of a candle factory at Vauxhall, London and a crushing mill upstream at Battersea, York Road.
  • 1840 The company had 84 members of staff.
  • 1847 The company by the name of Price's Patent Candle Co was established. [1]
  • 1855 The company, by this time, had 2,300 employees, and the original factory in Vauxhall, London was closed. Other factories were opened in Battersea and Liverpool.
  • 1891 Manufacturers of lubricants. [2]
  • 1900s The company was the largest manufacturer of candles in the world, and soon set up factories in Johannesburg, Shanghai, Chile, Rhodesia, Morocco, Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
  • 1911 Royal Agricultural Show. Showed appliances for testing oil. [3]
  • 1917 Advert. Refined paraffin wax, soap oils etc. See Prices' Co. [4]
  • 1937 Manufacturers of lubricants. "Belmoline" Motor Greases. "Belvedere" Greases. "Motorine" Motor Oils. "Zero" Radiator Anti-freeze. [5]
  • 1991 Shell, the eventual owners of the company, sold it back to a private buyer.

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[edit] Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. ↑ Directory 1891 Worrall's Cotton Spinners
  3. ↑ The Engineer of 7th July 1911 p27
  4. ↑ Directory 1917 Worrall's Yorkshire Textile Advert p194
  5. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  • [1] Price's Patent Candles Website
  • [2] Wikipedia
  • Trademarked. A History of Well-Known Brands - from Aertex to Wright's Coal Tar by David Newton. Pub: Sutton Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-0-7509-4590-5
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