Yates and Co (of Wilton)
From Graces Guide
1889 Yates and Co, of the Royal Carpet Factory, Wilton, was incorporated to continue and extend the carpet making industry carried on in Wilton for 2 centuries. It made Axminster and Wilton carpets.
1896 Issue of shares to pay-off the debentures; the company would then be listed on the Stock Exchange. The company had 3 factories - at Wilton, Salisbury and Southampton, as well as warehouses. Directors were Pardoe Yates, Rachel Yates and James Lander who held a personal appointment as carpet maker to the Queen[1]
Later Wilton Royal Carpet Factory
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Feb. 12, 1896