Tilley Lamp Co
of Colindale Avenue, London; of 33 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, W.I. (1947); of 15 Sackville Street, London, W1 (1951)
The Tilley Lamp derives from John Tilley’s invention of the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe in 1813.
1818 W. H. Tilley began manufacturing pressure lamps at their works in Stoke Newington, and in Shoreditch in the 1830s.
1909 Private company incorporated as Tilley High-Pressure Gas Syndicate Ltd.[1]
The company moved to Brent Street in Hendon in 1915 during World War I, and started work with paraffin (kerosene) as a fuel for the lamps.
During World War I the Tilley Lamp was widely used in the British armed forces, and became so popular that Tilley became used as a generic name for Kerosene lamp in many parts of the world, in much the same way as Hoover is for vacuum cleaners.
During the 1920s the company had diversified into domestic lamps, and had expanded rapidly after orders from a number of railway companies.
Name changed.
1937 Portable lamps, floodlights and searchlight projectors. "Tilley" Lamps. [2]
After the World War II fears about the poisonous effect of paraffin fumes, and freely available electricity reduced demand for domestic use.
1947 Name changed.
1949 Company made public.
1959 The company began diversification[3]
1961 The company moved its operations from Hendon to Ireland, finally settling in Belfast.
1961 Manufacturers of "Tilley" paraffin vapour lamps, radiators and low pressure gas appliances. 360 employees. [4]
1970 Merger with Falks Veritas[5] but failed on concern about US liability issues.
By 1989 the company was an unquoted subsidiary of Candlewood Holdings
In 2000 they relocated.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Dec 16, 1949
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ The Times, May 26, 1959
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Sep 16, 1970
- [1] Wikipedia