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Xylonite Co

From Graces Guide

1869 Daniel Spill formed the Xylonite Co. Ltd in the premises used by the earlier Parkesine Co. Ltd in Hackney Wick. Other partners included W. C. Barnes, a prominent east London chemical manufacturer.

1872 Xylonite Co. Resolution to wind the company up.[1][2]

1874 The firm was liquidated.

Spill moved to a new site in Homerton and set up his own company, Daniel Spill and Co. Ltd, which in 1877 became the British Xylonite Co. Ltd.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:6 February 1872 Issue:23825 Page:479
  2. ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:20 November 1874 Issue:24153 Page:5576
  • Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. By Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell. Edited by John Graham Smith. 1988.
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