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of Molesworth Street, Rochdale
1901 Company established
1917 Advert. Paper tubes for silk, cotton, woollen and worsted spinners.
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.
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