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 174,148 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.

Smith's Containers

From Graces Guide

1970 Mr Smith had set up Smith’s Containers, a plastic container making operation, in Northants. in January 1970. It was beginning to progress two years later and Mr Smith was entertaining ideas of going public one day.[1]

1989 ... part of the Reedpack Group, is a leading producer of plastic containers for the food and chemical industries[2]

1989 Smith’s Containers is a leading manufacturer of blow moulded plastic containers. We are looking to recruit ... based at Raunds, ..[3]. Manufacturer of blow-moulded containers in Polyethylene and PVC, with sites at Raunds, Rushden and Blackburn[4]

1991 Svenska Cellulosa AB disposed of Smith's Containers[5] which became part of RPC Containers

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Daily Express 22 November 1980
  2. ↑ Northampton Chronicle and Echo 30 March 1989
  3. ↑ Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph 30 November 1989
  4. ↑ Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph 23 September 1988
  5. ↑ Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph 08 February 1991