Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Tar Residuals

From Graces Guide

of Plantation House, Mincing Lane, London, E.C.3. Works: Cheadle Heath, near Stockport

Makers of creosote, naphthas, naphthalene, pyridine, carbolic and cresylic acids, tar, caustic potash solid flake, pieces and powder; oxalic acid crystals, carbonate of potash—all grades.

1927 Set up by Henry Simon and 2 private investment companies to trade as a merchant and distributor of chemical products including coal tar.[1]

1929 Dr Frederick Russell Tunks is Director.[2]

1955 an associate of Simon-Carves Ltd

1969 Simon-Carves acquired the shares it did not already own

1973 Tar Residuals, Plantation House, Mincing Lane, London.[3]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times Sept. 3, 1969
  2. The Scotsman - Thursday 17 January 1929
  3. Reading Evening Post - Thursday 29 November 1973