Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Haldane and Co

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Forth Cooperage, 32 Abbey Road, Stirling

1886 The cooperage was established on the site of the old Stirling shipbuilding yard on the north bank of the Forth.[1]

1900 The copartnership of Haldane and Company was dissolved by the subscribers Frederick Flower Haldane and William Cuthbert, with the business being carried on by the latter.[2]

1919 The firm was dissolved, on the retiral of Asa Clay as a partner. William Cuthbert once again carried on as sole partner and under the same name as before.[3]

1925 Haldane and Company Limited was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £30,000, to purchase and acquire the business of Haldane and Company, coopers, hoop and stave merchants.[4] William Cuthbert died around this time, aged 65.[5]

1954 The company, which at the time employed about 70 workers, was taken over by the Distillers Co as a subsidiary.[6]

1961 The company went into voluntary liquidation.[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. Dundee Courier 8 January 1954
  2. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/11370/page/9
  3. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13609/page/1555
  4. The Scotsman 5 September 1925
  5. Dundee Evening Telegraph 25 September 1925
  6. Dundee Courier 8 January 1954
  7. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/17894/page/44
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/13797