Baron Machinery Co
1895 Bernhard Baron came to England from America, where he had been engaged in cigarette manufacture. He was the owner of patents for cigarette-making machinery. In England he started to build these machines for sale.
His customers for machinery included John Player and Sons Ltd. and other United Kingdom tobacco manufacturers who had not been able to use the Bonsack machine to which W. D. and H. O. Wills had acquired the sole rights.
Robert Legg made some of the machines for Baron. Baron himself used the machines to make cigarettes and also rented them to other manufacturers.
1903 Baron was one of the founders of Carreras Ltd.
The Baron interests in machinery manufacture were vested in the Baron Machinery Co. Ltd. and later passed to Carreras Ltd.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Monopolies Commission report 1961