James Templeton and Co
James Templeton and Co, of 30, William-street, Greenhead, Glasgow, Carpet Mill.
1839 The business was established in a very small way in Bridgeton. The founder of the firm was the inventor of the first machine-made Axminster carpets - James Templeton had previously been in business in Paisley as a manufacturer of Paisley shawls.
1873 Exhibited Axminster carpets and rugs at the Vienna Exhibition[1]
1876 the Subscriber, Peter Reid, residing in Renfrew street, Glasgow, retired as at 30th November, 1875, in terms of the contract, from the copartnership of James Templeton and Co., and J. and J. S. Templeton, Carpet Manufacturers, in Glasgow and London.[2]
1878 Exhibitor at the Paris Universal Exhibition, of carpets, rugs, etc[3]
1879 BY mutual agreement, the Subscribers, James Templeton, senior, and Archibald Templeton, retired, as at and from the 30th day of November last, from the Copartnership carried on by them and the other Subscribers, John Stewart Templeton and James Templeton, junior, as Carpet Manufacturers, in Glasgow, under the firms of James Templeton and Company and J. and J. S. Templeton, of which firms the four Subscribers were the sole Partners. The Subscribers, John Stewart Templeton and James Templeton, junior, continue to carry on the business under the same firms.[4]
By 1923 there were 3 000 workpeople.
1947 became a public Limited Company with a great great grandson of James Templeton as Chairman.
1955 One of 5 companies which founded Tufted Carpets Ltd[5] whose products were sold as Kosset Carpets[6]
1961 The company had six carpet factories in Glasgow and two spinning mills, one in Glasgow and one in Stirling. It acquired a 30-acre site at Govanhill for a large new factory.
1968 John Crossley-Carpet Trades Holdings Ltd of Halifax and the Carpet Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kidderminster bought out the interests of their other 2 partners in Tufted Carpets Ltd[7]
1969 Acquired by Guthrie Industries[8]
1980 Transferred to Stoddard Holdings, presumably renamed as Stoddard Templeton