Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.
1949 Private company incorporated to acquire the chemical manufacturing business carried on by William Cocker as Dickinson and Son of Oswaldtwistle and Church, Lancashire; Reckitt and Colman took a majority interest as the company produced chemical intermediates valuable to that company[1]
1972 British Tar Products acquired Cocker Chemical Co Ltd from Reckitt and Colman and the Cocker family[2]
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