John Bennett, Lawes and Co
of Imperial Street, Bromley-by-Bow, London, E.3. (1959)
N.B. This enterprise has a different name from John Bennet Lawes and Co of Mincing Lane but it seems likely that they must be very closely related as the businesses were so similar.
1867 John Bennet Lawes bought the insolvent Atlas Chemical Works at Millwall (which produced tartaric and citric acid). This became John Bennet Lawes and Co (of Mincing Lane).
1870 John Bennet Lawes, manufacturing chemist (Atlas Works)[1]
1892 Thomas Bennett, manager to Sir John Bennett, Lawes and Co, told the court that his company had been making tartaric acid in lead vessels for 25 years without injurious effects as far as he knew.[2]
1911 Exhibited non-conducting cement at the Chemical Engineering Exhibition, which would adhere directly to structural steel work.[3]
1959 Products:Tartaric and citric acids, cream of tartar, sodium potassium tartrate carbonic acid gas, lithium salts, calcium gluconate, glucono delta lactose (gluconic acid anhydride).