Carbic
Carbic Ltd of 51 Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1, and Thornhill, Yorks.
1903 C. C. Wakefield and Co introduced (?) Carbic cake.
1910 C. C. Wakefield and Co claimed Carbic cake to be an improved method of packaging the ingredients for making acetylene[1]. Exhibited patented Carbic acetylene lamp at exhibition at Olympia.
1910 Carbic Ltd floated as a new public company to acquire the business of making Carbic cake, the factory at Thornhill, Yorkshire and the trademarks (including Carbric, Brillia, Setlene, etc) and patent rights from C. C. Wakefield and Co[2].
1914 Directors: Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield (Chairman), Walter F. Reid, F.I.C., F.C.S., W. M. Letts and James Browne.
1914 Acetylene Lighting and Welding Specialists. Specialities: Generators and Generating Plants for House, Street, Motor Car and other forms of lighting by the Carbic System. Also portable Flarelights for Contractor's use. Employees 50. [3]
1928 Company made private.
1937 Manufacturers of oxy-acetylene welding plant. "Carbic" Cakes and Generators. "Chameleon" Welding Rods. "Gussolite" Welding Rods. [4]
1961 Acetylene specialists. [5]
By 1981 was a subsidiary of Reckitt and Colman[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 15 June 1910
- ↑ The Times, 20 October 1910
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Reckitt and Colman annual report 1981