Patent Enamel Co
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2017. Colman's signs at Goathland Railway Station. (Image: Bob Walton).
Patent Enamel Co of Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Benjamin Baugh developed the process of making enameled iron plate signs for advertising. He patented his process in 1859, and ran Salt's Patent Enamel Works in Bradford Street, Birmingham.[1]
1888 The company was registered on 18 March, to take over the business carried on at Birmingham under the name of the Patent Enamel Co..
1889 Baugh opened the sign factory at Selly Oak, Birmingham under the name of Patent Enamel Co Ltd.
1894 This company went into liquidation in July, and reconstruction took place under the same title, the present company being registered on 17 July. In reconstruction the capital was largely written down. [2]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ www.historywebsite.co.uk
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908