Callendar Iron Co
From Graces Guide
of Falkirk, Sterlingshire, Scotland. Telephone: 29/30. Telegraphic Address: "Callabbot, Falkird". (1937)
- 1876 Company founded. The Callendar Iron Co was established with capital raised from Mathew Hay, William Graham and George Binnie; and land feued** from William Forbes of Callendar.
- 1884 Maker of rainwater goods[1].
- 1912 The Company was incorporated with the registration number SC008336.
- 1918 Private company formed.
- 1923 Went into liquidation.
- 1924 It was re-incorporated with the registration number SC013098.
- 1929 The company joined Allied Ironfounders.
- 1933 Name changed. Amalgamated with Abbotts to form Callendar Abbots Iron Co Ltd.
- 1936 Entered liquidation.
- 1937 It was re-incorporated with the registration number SC019779.
- 1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Trojan Combination Grate. Stainless Steel Grates. Register Grates. Interiors. Mantel Registers. Enamelled Mantel Registers. Barless Fires. Baths. Lavatory Fittings. (Stand Nos. B.609 and B.508)
- 1959 Name changed. The company was merged with Dobbie, Forbes and Co to become Callendar Abbots and Dobbie Forbes.
- 1961 Iron founders, manufacturing cast iron domestic solid fuel heating and cooking appliances and rain-water and soil goods.
- 1964 Company was dissolved.
- Note: **
- Feu - a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money: a right to the use of land, houses, etc., in perpetuity, for a stipulated annual payment.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Glasgow Herald, 16 January 1884
- [1] Falkirk Council Cultural Services
- 1937 British Industries Fair Page 344
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- Chambers English Dictionary