Diamond Match Co
of Linacre-road, at Seaforth, the British subsidiary of an American company
Read a description of the works at The Engineer 1899/07/07 and The Engineer 1899/07/14.
c.1894 A factory was established at Bootle, near Liverpool, to make matches.
By 1899 the American match maker, The Diamond Match Company, had acquired the factory and installed a continuous match-making machine that could produce 600,000 matches per hour as well as the packaging for the matches. Their matches were sold under the Captain Webb, Puck and Swan Vestas brand names.
1901 Bryant and May bought the assets and goodwill of the British Diamond Match Company and the company was then placed in Liquidation[1]. In this way the (American) Diamond Match Company acquired 54.5 percent of the share capital of Bryant and May.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette 9 August 1901