Louis Coen
Cigarette manufacturer
1887 Louis Coen, cigarette manufacturer, Victoria Parade, (Torquay)[1]
1893 "Royal Beauties" cigarettes. Louis Coen, Manufacturer, 51 East Street, Brighton.[2]
1898 Inventor of a machine to dispense cigarettes on omnibuses and tramcars.[3] Formed the Omnibus and Tramcar Automatic Supply Co. but it shortly failed
1911 '...the opening of the new factory of Mr. Louis Coen at 316, Vauxhall Bridge-road, yesterday, when a demonstration was given of the manufacture of the “Health Cigarette,” in which there is mesh to prevent nicotine from entering the mouth'.[4]
1926 'Victor Coen, 316, Vauxhall Bridge-road, Tobacco Manufacturer.'[5]
1933 Louis Coen, Piccadilly. Cigars and cigarettes.[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Torquay Times, and South Devon Advertiser - Friday 01 April 1887
- ↑ Southern Weekly News - Saturday 04 November 1893
- ↑ Dundee Courier - Tuesday 15 March 1898
- ↑ London Daily News - Friday 10 March 1911
- ↑ Western Daily Press - Tuesday 19 October 1926
- ↑ Illustrated Police News - Thursday 26 October 1933