British Berkefeld Filters
of Town Mills, Cannon lane, Tonbridge, Kent
See also Berkefeld Filter Co
1921 Slack and Brownlow moved to Tonbridge; with a sister company, British Berkefeld Filters, they took over the former premises of the failed car manufacturing venture, Storey Motors[1]
1922 British Industries Fair entry: Berkefeld Filter Co (British), The, Sardinia House, Kingsway. Works: Tonbridge, Kent. Manuf of water filters of all descriptions for high and low pressure for home and oversea trade.
1922 British Industries Fair Advert for "Berkefeld" Filters - best for household and all other purposes. Pure Water. (Stand No. G.13) [2]
1929 British Industries Fair Advert for filters for 'household and all other purposes'. Manufacturers of Water Filters for High and Low Pressure in Cast Iron, Porcelain Enamelled, Enamelled Iron, Stoneware and Glass. Also Gun-metal, Brass and Copper Nickel-plated. Capacity 5 to 550 gallons per hour. (Pottery Section - Stand No. E.9) [3]
1932 Deed of Arrangement registered on the 19th day of May, 1932, between Herbert Harrison Brownlow and Richard Sydney Brownlow (trading as Slack and Brownlow) and the Berkefeld Filter Co (British), of Town Mills, Tonbridge, Kent, and Sardinia House, Sardinia Street, Kingsway, London, W.C., and also as The Denton Brick and Tile Co, Newhaven, Sussex, and VERNON WALKER, as Trustee.[4]
1930s At some point the company seems to have adopted the name Berkefeld Filters and Water Softeners Ltd. - see Berkefeld Filter Co
Still in business in 1961 (see advert)
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Tonbridge history
- ↑ 1922 British Industries Fair Advert xxviii
- ↑ 1929 British Industries Fair Advert 105B; and p19
- ↑ London Gazette 7 April 1933