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* 1886 Private corporation registered to take over the business. | * 1886 Private corporation registered to take over the business. | ||
* 1891 Oil Merchants and Factors, oil refiners and seed crushers at King and Queen Wharf, Rotherhithe<ref>Post Office London Trades Directory, 1891</ref>. | |||
* 1896 The company was incorporated, to acquire the business of the company of the same name, oil refiners and anti-fouling paint manufacturers<ref>The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908</ref>. Subsequently, there was a public issue of shares<ref>The Times, 12 December 1896</ref>. Supplied oils, etc to railway companies, ship owners, mill owners and engineering works. | * 1896 The company was incorporated, to acquire the business of the company of the same name, oil refiners and anti-fouling paint manufacturers<ref>The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908</ref>. Subsequently, there was a public issue of shares<ref>The Times, 12 December 1896</ref>. Supplied oils, etc to railway companies, ship owners, mill owners and engineering works. | ||
Revision as of 10:39, 23 October 2010
Oil refiners, merchants and factors, railway and tramcar builders and contractors of 101 Leadenhall Street and (oil merchants) 16 Marine St Bermondsey (1882)[1]
of 33 Eastcheap, London, EC (1914),
of 26 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1, also of Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cardiff, Barrow-in-Furness and Hamburg.
- 1854 Company established in Glasgow[2].
- 1862 Branch works established in Liverpool.
- 1875 Branch works established in London with depots in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cardiff, Barrow-in-Furness and Hamburg.
- 1882 W. B. Dick and Co of Leadenhall Street, London were contractors for the South Staffordshire and Birmingham District Steam Tramways; representatives at the launch ceremony were W. B. Dick and Mr Kerr[3]
- 1882 Business advertised included: Oil refiners, merchants and factors, railway contractors, railway chair and bowl sleeper manufacturers, railway wagon and carriage manufacturers, permanent way contractors, plant contractors, tramcar builders and tramway contractors.
- 1883 Dick, Kerr and Co formed, which constructed railway locomotives and tramways.
- 1886 Private corporation registered to take over the business.
- 1891 Oil Merchants and Factors, oil refiners and seed crushers at King and Queen Wharf, Rotherhithe[4].
- 1896 The company was incorporated, to acquire the business of the company of the same name, oil refiners and anti-fouling paint manufacturers[5]. Subsequently, there was a public issue of shares[6]. Supplied oils, etc to railway companies, ship owners, mill owners and engineering works.
- 1914 Oil refiners, boilers, importers and rectifiers, distillers of turpentine. Specialities: marine engine and cylinder oils, turbine engine oil, crank chamber oil, fire-boiled oil for sheet dressing. [7]
- 1934 See W. B. Dick and Co: 1934 Review
- 1937 Refiners and specialists in manufacture of lubricants. "Ilo" Lubricants. [8]
- 1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Post Office London Directory, 1882
- ↑ The Times, 14 December 1896
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post, 27 July 1882
- ↑ Post Office London Trades Directory, 1891
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Times, 12 December 1896
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries