Derby Crown Glass Co
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Derby Crown Glass Company
- 1913 Derby Crown Glass Co was started (presumably by Wood Brothers Glass Co) mainly for production of jars for potted meats, toilet cream and for malt[1].
- 1915 Wood Brothers Glass Co built an extra furnace at Derby Crown Glass Co[2].
- 1916 Started to manufacture optical glass; the only company which had been making it in the UK up to then had been Chance Brothers and Co[3].
- 1919 William Francis John Wood was chairman, and also of the Rylands Glass and Engineering Co Ltd and Wood Brothers Glass Co Ltd[4].
- 1921 Charles Parsons, who was interested in acoustics and in optics, in addition to his other businesses, and organized a special department for the production of searchlight reflectors at Heaton, acquired a controlling interest in the optical firm of Ross Ltd, of Clapham, where he improved the methods of glass-grinding. He also purchased the Derby Crown Glass Co to improve the basic glass. The Parsons Optical Glass Co produced many different types of glass for optical purposes.
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