Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Parkesine Co

From Graces Guide

1866 The Parkesine Company Ltd was formed in Hackney Wick to make Parkesine, the original "plastic", invented by Alexander Parkes. George Maule (of the dyestuffs firm Simpson, Maule and Nicholson) was the principal shareholder; Daniel Spill (1832-87) was works manager.

1868 Company to be wound up. '...Special Resolution was duly confirmed:- "That this Company be wound up voluntarily...'[1]

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Sources of Information

  • Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. By Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell. Edited by John Graham Smith. 1988.