Alexander Pirie and Sons
of Auchmill and Aberdeen
of Stoneywood Works, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire
1770 Company established.
1855 Exhibited paper at the 1855 Paris Exhibition
1898 Incorporated as a limited company.
1898 The company was registered on 25 June, to take over the business of paper manufacturers of a company of the same name. [1]
1902 'Two interesting models of the wove and laid Dandy rolls for water marking paper were added to Messrs A. Pirie and Sons' collection in the Aberdeen Art Gallery yesterday. They are kindly lent by Mr E. A Woollard, Dandy roll maker, who is in the employment Messrs A. Pirie and Sons, Ltd., Stoneywood Works. The models show the devices for water-marking paper sewn the surface of the rolls. The skeletons of the rolls are of brass, and are covered with fine wire cloth.'[2]
1914 Paper and envelope manufacturers. [3]
Wiggins, Teape and Co and Alexander Pirie and Sons decided to make Britain independent of Continental supplies of photographic paper by erecting a modern mill at Woburn Green in Buckinghamshire.
1922 Alexander Pirie and Sons was purchased by Wiggins, Teape and Co
The largest envelope maker in Scotland, Alexander Pirie and Sons, merged with the largest in England, Fenner and Appleton of London, forming Pirie, Appleton and Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 25 April 1902
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book