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Curtiss and Sons

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of 28 Farringdon Street, London, E.C.

1861 Company established.

1897 Incorporated as a Limited Company.

1914 Railway and Shipping Agents, Removal Contractors and General Carriers, Furniture Warehousemen, &c. Chief Offices: Royal Pantechnicon, Portsmouth. Hours of Business: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Established in 1861 by George Henry Curtiss, Alfred George Curtiss, Richard William Curtiss, as Curtiss & Co. Partnership Successions: (1) Curtiss & Son, 1864; (2) Curtiss & Sons, 1871. Incorporated as a Limited Company in 1897. Directors: F. E. French, J.P. (Chairman), LieutenantColonel F. H. Armstrong; Alfred George Curtiss, Robert Thomas Curtiss, Alfred. C. Osborn (Managing Directors). Successors to the old road carriers of George Pescott & Son, to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. Premises: Claim to have the largest warehouses in the South of England, having a frontage of 200 feet in Gunwharf Road, Portsmouth; also one of the largest in the North-west of London, at Latimer Road, Notting Hill. Branch Offices also at The Hard, Portsea. Goods Depot, Portsmouth Town Station; Depository, North End, Portsmouth; 60, High Street, Gosport. Van and Waggon Builders. Waterside Premises for shipping goods for the Isle of Wight; also H.M. Ships at Spithead. Own a fleet of five motor and sailing vessels, 200 Furniture and other vans, fifty trollies, ninety horses, and four road steam engines and' motors for haulage of furniture vans. Staff: Ninety

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