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 164,352 pages of information and 246,084 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.

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

  • 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.