John Swailes and Sons
Jno. Swailes and Sons of Oldham Cop Tube Works, Gladstone Street, Moorhey, Oldham
1859 Founded by John Swailes.
1891 Makers of tubing apparatus for the cotton industry.
1917 Advert. Makers of all kinds of paper tubes and bobbins. Brass and wire spindle rings
1924 Swailes Ltd was incorporated to acquire the businesses of paper tube makers as going concerns carried on up to 1920 by J. Swailes and Sons and the Lancashire Paper Tube Co.
1924 "Messrs. Swailes Ltd. have recently absorbed the old-established business of over 20 years' standing carried on successfully at Rochdale by the Lancashire Paper Tube Co., and both the Oldham and the Rochdale works are equipped with up-to-date machinery and plant for producing their special manufactures of the best quality at the lowest possible cost."[1]
1936 Swailes Ltd of Oldham and Rochdale: Paper Tubes for the textile industry.
1984 Renamed T. P. T. Ltd
1987 Renamed Sonoco Ltd, a subsidiary of Sonoco Products Ltd of USA
1990 Renamed Sonoco Board Mills Ltd of Stockport
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1924 British Empire Exhibition: Cotton Textile Industry
- Directory 1917 Worrall's Yorkshire Textile Advert p90
- Directory 1891 Worrall's Cotton Spinners
- The Textile Manufacturer Year Book 1936. Published by Emmott and Co. Advert on p30