Woollard and Henry
of Dyce, Aberdeen
1873 Dandy roll business started by Ernest Woollard (?? query this - see below. Probably formed around 1905)
1902 'Two interesting models of the wove and laid Dandy rolls for water marking paper were added to Messrs A. Pirie and Sons' collection in the Aberdeen Art Gallery yesterday. They are kindly lent by Mr E. A Woollard, Dandy roll maker, who is in the employment Messrs A. Pirie and Sons, Ltd., Stoneywood Works. The models show the devices for water-marking paper sewn the surface of the rolls. The skeletons of the rolls are of brass, and are covered with fine wire cloth.'[1]
Edward A. Woollard left the employ of A. Pirie and Sons and started the Dandy Roll Works, Bucksburn.[2]
1920 Edward Augustus Woollard died and the business was continued by his son Edward Henry Woollard
1930s Richard Henry joined the business, which was renamed Woollard and Henry.
1952 Edward Henry Woollard is described as a Dandy Roll maker (Retired) of 1 Bankhead Road, Bucksburn.[3]
1970 'Rising to meet the challenge of increasingly sophisticated papermaking technology, North-east dandy roll makers Woollard and Hendry, Stoneywood Works, Bucksburn, are not only surviving in a highly specialised trade, where the number of firms have shrunk in recent years, but are penetrating fresh export markets in Europe and in the South. They have just developed a new high-speed dandy roll cope with the demands of today's bigger and faster papermaking machines. Recently they exported to Finland the biggest dandy roll yet built in Europe, 32ft long and 4ft in diameter, precision-made is stainless steel. And, while dandy rolls may not quite as complex refined engineering as Rolls-Royce cars, such a "dandy" as the Finns bought commands the sort of price associated with luxury cars - £9000 to £10,000 each. Fitted at the wet end of a machine, a dandy roll is rotated on top of the pulp compress the paper fibres while they are still so wet giving the paper a good top surface. Where a watermark is required, it is imparted by the dandy roll during this process.'[4].
- Company website here.
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