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 167,647 pages of information and 247,065 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.

Sterling International

From Graces Guide

1950s Business set up by Peter Newton in San Francisco to import British products[1]

1956 Agents for the products of Unicorn Leather Co of Bury in the USA[2]

1968 With Oxley Industries registered Stubbins Mill as a private company, a dealer, manufacturer and converter of paper and paper products[3]

1970 Sterling International (Mill Sales) Ltd , a subsidiary of Sterling International of San Francisco, acquired Oxley Industries's paper converting division[4]

The company had 10 percent of the British soft tissue market[5]

1999 Company in liquidation together with Sterling International (UK) Ltd[6]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Feb. 16, 2008
  2. The Times Jan. 30, 1956
  3. The Times Sept. 12, 1968
  4. The Times Sept. 25, 1970
  5. The Times Feb. 16, 2008
  6. The Times Sept. 29, 1999