Symonds' London Stores
Royal Duke cycle
1900 Advertising Symonds' Standard Cycles[1]
1909 Liquidator appointed.[2]
1911 'Some years have elapsed since that notable figure in the advertising world who answered to the name of W. E. Scott took his departure somewhat hastily from these shores, on the toppling over of the gigantic swindle which he had built up under the name of Symond's London Stores. He went to Germany, where he embarked in the quack medicine business, and as Professor Dana purveyed a cure for asthma, as Professor Pollok posed as a specialist for gout, and as Horatio Carter undertook to cure neurasthenia with "Amvita" These operations eventually attracted the attention of the Berlin police. Scott - or rather Skinner, which is his real and much more appropriate arrested on charge of frauds but being released on bail of £5,000, he thought it advisable to return to his native land, forfeiting the £5,000 rather than face the German courts. At New York he has since remained, and is at present supplying the American public with a new remedy for making its hair grow, called " Koscott."[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 06 May 1900
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:29 August 1905 Issue:27831 Page:5924
- ↑ Truth - Wednesday 15 March 1911