John Knowles and Co
Works - Mount Pleasant Works, Wooden Box, near Burton-on-Trent.
London Office 38 Kings Road, St. Pancras, London N.W.1.
1849 Company established at Wooden Box.
1863 Office opened in London.
1908 Incorporated as a limited company.
1914 Manufacturers of fireclay goods, sanitary stoneware pipes and connections. Proprietors of crucible steel pot and cement fireclay mines. Specialities: sanitary stoneware drain pipes and connections; firebricks, lumps and tiles for iron and steel furnaces; boiler seating blocks and flue covers, nozzles, stoppers and rod covers for the Bessemer or Siemen's steel process; firebrick backs and linings for coal and gas stoves and hollow fuel for gas fires. Employees 370. [1]
1927 the managing director is G. Marlow Reed