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Claims to be the original Patentees and Manufacturers of [[Kamptulicon]].
Claims to be the original Patentees and Manufacturers of [[Kamptulicon]].
D. K. Brown credits Lt. G. Walter with the invention of Kamptulicon <ref>'Before the Ironclad' by David K. Brown, Seaforth Publishing, 1990</ref>. Walter proposed it as a lining for the hulls of iron warships, with the aim of preventing gunshot holes and arresting splinters. Admiralty firing trials carried out in 1845 gave mixed results. In one case the Kamptulicon almost completely sealed the hole after the shot had passed through.


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...'<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21258/page/2851 The London Gazette Publication date:31 October 1851 Issue:21258 Page:2851]</ref>
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...'<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21258/page/2851 The London Gazette Publication date:31 October 1851 Issue:21258 Page:2851]</ref>

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of 48 Cannon Street, London E.C. and Greenwich Road, Greenwich, London.

Established 1843.

Claims to be the original Patentees and Manufacturers of Kamptulicon.

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...'[1]

1864 Agents in Scotland partnership dissolved. 'The Copartnery of GEDDES & ERSKINE, Agents for the Sale in Scotland and Berwick-upon-Tweed for the Kamptulicon Manufactures of Messrs Gough & Boyce of London, was DISSOLVED by the mutual consent of the Subscribers, the sole Partners thereof, as upon the 4th day of August last. The Subscriber, George Hepburn Geddes, is empowered to uplift the assets and liquidate the debts due by the late Copartnery, and will henceforth carry on the Agency in his own name. JOHN MAR ERSKINE. GEORGE H. GEDDES.[2]

1869 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership which has for some time existed between Ebenezer Gough and Matthias Boyce, under the firm of Gough and Boyce, at Greenwich-road, Greenwich, and No. 48, Cannon-street, London, was this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[3]

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