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H. G. Sanders and Son

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of Regents Park, London

of Victoria Steam Works, Victoria Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London

of Gordon Road, Southall

1820 Business established.[1]

1870 Henry George Sanders, engineer, machinist, lathe tool & collapsible tube manufacturer, 24/25 Little Albany St NW[2], metallic collapsible tubes for artists colors, perfumers &C[3]

1873 Advert: 'NOTICE OF REMOVAL, — Messrs. H. G. SANDERS and SONS, Engineers and Metallic Collapsible Tube Manufacturers, beg to inform the Public that they have removed their Business from Little Albany-st., Regent's-park, to Victoria Steam Works, Victoria-gdns, Ladbroke-rd, Notting-Hill-gate, W.'[4]. Engineers and metallic collapsible tube manufacturers.[5]

1875 Dissolution of the Partnership between Henry George Sanders, Henry Conrad Sanders, and William George Sanders, of the Victoria Steam Works, Victoria-gardens, Ladbroke-road, Notting Hill-gate, in the county of Middlesex, Engineers and Collapsible Tube Manufacturers, trading under the style or firm of H. G. Sanders and Sons, William George Sanders retiring from the firm.[6]

1881 Partnership dissolved between Henry George Sanders and Henry Conrad Sanders, carrying on business at Wharf-road, Latimer-road, in the county of Middlesex, as Engineers and Pianoforte Action Manufacturers, under the style or firm of H. G. Sanders and Son. All debts owing to or from the late firm will be received or paid by the said Henry George Sanders, who will in future carry on the said businesses alone for his own benefit.[7] - see H. G. Sanders


By 1890 the business at Victoria Works was H. G. Sanders and Son.[8]

1891 Dissolution of the Partnership between Henry Conrad Sanders and Walter Frederick Sanders, under the firm of H. G. Sanders and Son, at the Victoria Steam Works, Victoria-gardens, Ladbroke-grove-road, Notting Hill Gate, in the county of Middlesex, in the trade or business of Collapsible Tube Manufacturers. Henry Conrad Sanders would carry the business under the same title[9]

c.1899 Moved to Southall.

1900 Messrs. H. G. Sanders & Son, Ltd., at their new Victoria Works, Gordon-road, Southall. A tour was made of the works in which the visitors were ...[10]

1933 '.. Owing to the kindness of the management in closing the works on Saturday morning, the employees of Messrs. H. G. Sanders and Son. Ltd.. metaltic tube manufacturers, Gordon-road. ...[11]

1955 Acquired by Saturn Industrial Gases

1961 F. M. Menheneott, formerly a managing director of Betts and Co was appointed executive director of the company[12]

1963 Was a subsidiary of Saturn Industrial Gases but was not included in the acquisition by Air Products[13]

1964 Was a maker of metal extrusions, of Southall. when Steel Brothers and Co acquired 60 percent of the equity[14]. After reorganisation and some investment the business returned to profit.

1986 Sold to a group of European investors represented by Belgrave Investment Trust because it was non-core.[15]

1987 H. G. Sanders (sic): Maker of packaging products for adhesives and creams, was acquired by Noble and Lund[16]

1991 H. G. Sanders and Son Ltd was in receivership[17]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Aug. 6, 1987
  2. London directory
  3. Post Office directory
  4. Echo (London) - Friday 26 September 1873
  5. Echo (London) 26 September 1873
  6. London Gazette 10 August 1875
  7. London Gazette 20 Sept 1881
  8. I Mech E membership of Percy Sanders
  9. London Gazette 8 Jan 1892
  10. West Middlesex Gazette 08 December 1900
  11. West Middlesex Gazette 01 July 1933
  12. The Times Nov. 2, 1961
  13. The Times July 15, 1963
  14. The Times Aug. 7, 1964
  15. The Times Oct. 3, 1986
  16. The Times Aug. 6, 1987
  17. London Gazette 4 February 1992