Walter and Gough

of London

Manufacturers of Kamptulicon

1849 Advertisement. 'FLOOR CLOTH. PATENT KAMPTULICON. A MECHANICAL COMBINATION OF PREPARED CORK AND INDIA RUBBER. For covering the aisles of churches to Prevent noise, damp and noxious exhalations from vaults under pews. The price is about the same as floorcloth, and from its non-absorbent properties its duration may be considered infinite. Application to be made to the sole maunufactuers, WALTER and GOUGH, at the works, Greenwich road.'

1849 'DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
On Saturday morning, at a quarter before one o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Walter, the Patent Kamptulicon (India Rubber) Works, Greenwich-road. The flames originated in the main factory, a building fitted up with the most valuable machinery, and containing a large stock in trade, and were discovered by some inhabitants while passing the front of the premises, shooting through the windows on the north side ; all in an instant fire rushed trom the roof so high into the air as to be distinctly visible from all parts of London, and caused the information to be instantly forwarded to the engine stations, and forthwith the West of England and London brigade engines started for the scene of conflagration. Upon reaching the spot, a fearful sight presented itself, for the whole of the factory, from the base to the roof, was one immense sheet of flame, and owing to the great quantity of India Rubber in the place, the heat was so intense that timber stacks on the premises of Mr. Haycraft, on the opposite side of the works, were expected to take fire. By three o'clock, the flames were so far subdued as to allay all apprehension of further damage to property. It is a remarkable fact that 150 sheets of the Kamptulicon floor-cloth, sold and prepared for delivery, laying in a loft, was found almost uninjured, except darkened by smoke. It was considered to inflammable, but this event proves it to fire-proof. Experiments had been made by the Board of Admiralty at the Dock-yard, Woolwich, for lining ships of war with it, to prevent the effects of cannon shot, &c, and also for flooring the stables of the military departments at Woolwich Garrison, and the royal stables at Pimlico, &c. The fire is supposed to have commenced in the stoke-hole of the engine department, but no positive clue has been arrived at as to how it originated. The premises covered the space from the creek to the main road, being a distance of 150 yards by 90.'

1850 Advertisement. 'INDESTRUCTIBLE and NOISELESS FLOOR-CLOTH, for Churches, Public Offices, Damp Floors, &c. Walter and Gough, Patentees and sole manufacturers, Patent Kamptulicon Works, Greenwich-road.'

1851 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, George Walter and Ebenezer Gough, as Manufacturers of The Patent Kamptulicon Material, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent...'

Became Gough and Boyce

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