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 167,713 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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CWS Derby Paints

From Graces Guide
May 1957.

of Stockbrook Street, Derby

Part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS)

1924 CWS acquired the premises of Browns Foundry Co and will use as a paint factory to replace the one at CWS Rochdale Paint Works destroyed by fire.[1]

1969 CWS pulled out of the paint market and ran down its Derby factory; International Paint was contracted to supply paint for CWS

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Sources of Information

  1. Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 05 February 1924