General Electrolytic Patent Co
From Graces Guide
1893 the company was established to develop the process for the electrolysis of brine using asbestos diaphragms developed by James Hargreaves and Thomas Bird
A small pilot plant was established at Farnworth, near Widnes.
1895 Bird died
1899 The Farnworth plant proved profitable, so the Electrolytic Alkali Co was set up.
1899 the Electrolytic Alkali Co was set up at Middlewich, with Hargreaves as a director and his son, Luke, as general manager, to acquire from the General Electrolytic Patent Co, certain patents for the United Kingdom for the manufacture by electrolysis of alkali, chlorine, bleaching powder and other products. [1]
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- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908