Diamond Match Co
of Linacre-road, at Seaforth, the British subsidiary of an American company
Read a description of the works at The Engineer 1899/07/07 and The Engineer 1899/07/14.
Late 19th century: the American Diamond Match Company designed a continuous match-making machine.
1895 Unable to find a purchaser for the British patent rights of its new machine, Diamond itself started manufacturing matches in the UK in a factory at Bootle, near Liverpool.
1896 A British subsidiary was formed, having some British directors and capital.
By 1899 the company had installed a continuous match-making machine that could produce 600,000 matches per hour as well as the packaging for the matches. Their matches were sold under the Captain Webb, Puck and Swan Vestas brand names.
1899 began the first manufacture of book matches in the United Kingdom
1901 Bryant and May, having realised the importance of the continuous machine method of manufacture, bought the assets and goodwill of the British Diamond Match Company and that company was then placed in liquidation[1]. In this way the (American) Diamond Match Company acquired 54.5 percent of the share capital of Bryant and May.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette 9 August 1901
- [1] Monopolies, etc report