Crystalate Manufacturing Co

of Town Works, Tonbridge, Kent, Manufacturers of Composition Billiard Balls, Gramophone Records, Electrical Fittings, &c
1900 Business established. Incorporated as a Limited Company.
1920 After merging with Sound Recording Co, Crystalate Manufacturing became the third company (and the second British one) to operate the Imperial label
By the mid-1920s it had four distribution depots in England and one each in Scotland and Ireland.
On 30 January 1928, the company re-incorporated in Golders Green, as Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Co and subsequently established affiliates in France and Germany, set up a new headquarters and studio, Crystalate House, in London.