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S. Maw, Son and Sons

From Graces Guide

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors

Established in 1807 by Mr. George Maw.

1914 Manufacturers of Surgical Instruments and Appliances, Aseptic Hospital Furniture, and Surgical Dressings, Druggists' Sundriesmen, Chemists' Shop Fitters, Sponge Importers, Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C. Present Principals: Charles Trentham Maw, Mowbray Trentham Maw, Henry Trentham Maw, M.D. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), and Arthur Trentham Maw, Pharmaceutical Chemist. Staff: About four hundred. Specialities: Surgical Instruments, Anatomical Appliances, Belts, Bandages, Surgical Boots, Artificial Limbs, Improved Hospital Furniture, Optical Goods, all descriptions of Druggists' Sundries, Surgical Dressings, Sponges, Toilet Specialities, &c. The firm's inventions are too numerous to particularise; it may be said that they supply everything for chemists except drugs, and every requisite for surgeons, anatomists, and hospitals in the shape of instruments, apparatus and accessories.

1959 Acquired by Norcros[1]

1965 N. P. U. Holdings subscribed for shares in the company, in order to develop the trade in NPU products, made to NPU specifications and distributed through private dispensing chemists in the UK[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Sep 19, 1959
  2. The Times, May 04, 1965