Robinson and Sons
of Wheat Bridge Mills, Chesterfield, makers of Surgical Dressings and Sanitary Towels; Lithographers and Printers of Cardboard Boxes; textile and packaging manufacturers.
1839 Business established by John Bradbury Robinson.
1839 Bought Fletcher's box manufacturing business
1860s Developed medical cotton wool
Makers of the Southall's Sanitary Towels until 1897
1897 Started to manufacture Mena Sanitary Towels.
1893 Incorporated as a Limited Company
By 1914 were manufacturers of Surgical Dressings, &c. Directors: Charles Portland Robinson, William Bradbury Robinson, Charles William Robinson, John Bradbury Robinson.
c.1919 Built a number of houses for their workers on the Dorman and Long steel-framed pattern[1]
1941 Acquired J. J. Blow.[2]
By 1950s Mene and Menex sanitary towels.
1950s Products were surgical dressings, absorbent paper and cardboard boxes.
1959 Acquired Edward Taylor.[2]