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Dussek Bitumen and Taroleum

From Graces Guide
1933.

of Empress Wharf, Sherman Street, London, E3; of Canal Bank, Deptford, London (1914).

1914 Traded as Dussek Bitumen Company[1]

1919 "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Albert Ernest Horatio Dussek and Angelo Sebastian Dussek, carrying on business as Bitumen Refiners and Manufacturers of and Dealers in Electrical Materials, at Sherman-street, Bromley-by-Bow, in the county of London, under the style or firm of, "DUSSEK BITUMEN COMPANY," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 31st day of December, 1918. All debts due and owing to or by the said late firm will be received or paid by the said Albert Ernest Horatio Dussek, and such business will be carried on in the future by the said Albert Ernest Horatio Dussek."[2]

1924 The Dussek Bitumen Company Ltd was incorporated, a private company[3]

1932 name changed to Dussek Bitumen and Taroleum Company Ltd

1932 In the High Court of Justice. — Chancery Division: "In the Matter of DUSSEK BITUMEN & TAROLEUM Limited (formerly The Dussek Bitumen Company Limited), and in the Matter of the Companies Act, 1929, NOTICE is hereby given that the Order of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, dated the 13th day of July, 1932, confirming the reduction of the capital of the above named Company from £70,000 to £55,251..."[4]

1937 Bitumen products, electrical insulating compounds and paint. "Trinidite" Bituminous Products and Insulating Materials.[5]

1984 Name changed to Colas Roads Ltd.

1992 Name of Colas Roads Ltd. changed to Colas Construction Ltd

1992 Name of Colas Roads Ltd. changed to Colas Construction Ltd

1992 Name of Colas Construction Ltd changed to Colcon Ltd


NB connected with Dussek Brothers and Co, also of Deptford, through at least one of the directors

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1914/07/24 p 108.
  2. The London Gazette 27 May 1919
  3. Companies House filings
  4. The London Gazette 2 August 1932
  5. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries