Ercol Furniture
Furniture maker, of High Wycombe
1888 Lucian Randolph Ercolani was born in San Angelo in Vado, Italy. His father was a woodcarver
1898 The Ercolani family came to England. Lucian studied at Shoreditch Technical Institute.
1910 He moved to High Wycombe to work for Fred Parker where he met Edward Gomme, son of a chair maker and a pupil at his evening class.
WWI Sent to work at Gomme’s which was engaged in aircraft work.
1920 Established, with support from a number of interested parties, the business of Furniture Industries; it employed 20 men in premises off the London Road.
Ercolani was very much an outsider - he introduced innovations such as putting machine belts below the floor for safety.
1934 Took over Walter Skull.
1946 Began to make the Windsor line as a result of the Britain Can Make It Fair.
1984 The name of Furniture Industries Ltd was changed to Ercol Furniture Ltd[1]
1995 Employed 450.
1999 High Wycombe's largest furniture maker, Ercol, announced that it was moving to Princes Risborough
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Companies house filing
- Furniture Makers of High Wycombe [1]
- Biography of Lucian Ercolani, ODNB