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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Hugh Mackay

From Graces Guide

Hugh Mackay plc, of Durham, carpet manufacturer

1921 Company incorporated, presumably Hugh Mackay and Co

1987 Acquired Pendle Carpets, which brought tufted carpet manufacturing into the group; production in Durham, Blackburn and Clitheroe[1]

1989 Assets transferred to fellow subsidiary ATC Manufacturing

1990 Allied Textiles which already owned 29 percent of the company offered to buy the company[2]

2004 Company went into receivership[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1987 Annual report
  2. The Times Jan. 19, 1990
  3. The Times Nov. 18, 2005