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Joseph Lucas and Son

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1891 February. Exhibit at the 1891 Stanley Cycle Show.

Joseph Lucas and Son of Birmingham was a famous British manufacturer of automotive components for the motor industry.

Chronology of this group:

See Joseph Lucas (1834-1902) and his son Harry Lucas

1860 Joseph Lucas, who was formerly employed by Elkington and Co, started in business, selling buckets, shovels, and other items of hollow-ware door-to-door

1870 Started manufacturing hand-lamps and lanterns, and a special type of ship's lamp invented by Joseph Lucas.

1872 Lucas took his eldest son, Harry Lucas, into business.

By 1875 they had set up the Tom Bowling lamp works in Little King Street, Birmingham, producing a lamp of the same name for the fishing industry. They decided to concentrate on lamps which would burn the new petroleum-based lamp oil.

1878 Company made first cycle lamp for the new bicycle market, which were soon required to carry lamps after dusk. Lucas's first cycle lamp was called the "King of the Road"

1882 Harry Lucas became a partner in the business, Joseph Lucas and Son, for the manufacture of pressed metal goods, including ship, coach and carriage lamps.

1897 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership formerly subsisting between us the undersigned Joseph Lucas and Harry Lucas lately carrying on business under the style or firm of Joseph Lucas and Son as Manufacturers of Cycle Lamps Fittings and Accessories at Little King-street and Great King-street in the city of Birmingham was dissolved by mutual consent...'[1][2]

1897 Formation of public limited company, Joseph Lucas Ltd, to raise finance to build a five-storey factory in Great King Street[3], close to the original site in Little King Street. Joseph was chairman, and he and his son Harry were joint managing directors. The company had 700 employees; Walter Chamberlain, youngest brother of Joseph Chamberlain, was appointed to the board.


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The London Gazette Publication date: 7 January 1898 Issue: 26927 Page: 106
  2. ↑ The Times, Jan 08, 1898
  3. ↑ The Times, May 27, 1911
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