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 174,136 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Harrison and Jones

From Graces Guide
1939. From Picture Post magazine of 11th April.
April 1939. Twi Light mattresses.
May 1939.
November 1939.

of Purax Mills, Liverpool.

of Manchester (1989), manufacture and fabrication of polyurethane foams.

1939 Harrison and Jones made the Purax mattress (see advert)

1960 Ranwal Ltd was incorporated

1980 Ranwal Ltd was renamed as Harrison and Jones (Automotive and Industrial) Ltd

1984 Renamed Harrison and Jones Group Ltd

By 1989 was a subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere de Suez S.A.[1]

1991 Acquired by Recticel Ltd; name changed.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1989 Annual report