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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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A. Ogston and Sons

From Graces Guide

of Aberdeen. Soap and candle maker

1802 Company founded

Sometime after 1892, the soap and candle works of Charles Tennant and Co Ltd at St Rollox was merged with A. Ogston and Sons of Aberdeen, to form Ogston and Tennant Ltd [1].

The combined company later became part of the Lever Group.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. First Tennant Memorial Lecture, 1943, delivered by Brigadier General Sir William Alexander to the Glasgow section of the Society of Chemical Industry
  • The History of Unilever by Charles Wilson. Published 1954 by Cassell and Co