Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Blackwood, Morton and Sons

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Blackwood, Morton and Sons, BMK, of Kilmarnock, Scotland, Paisley, and Liversedge.

of Queen Victoria Works, Dundee. (1988)

  • BMK brand.

Formerly a carpet factory

WWII became a Rotol Airscrews sub-contract depot.

Post-WWII: went back to making carpets and rugs

1950 Advert on this page. [1]

1953 Advert. [2]

1954 Advert on this page. [3]

1968 Made woven carpets; the company saw a possibility that increases in demand for tufted carpets might be slowing; its Axminster carpets were sold in Canada, where its subsidiary company made Wilton carpets. Subsidiaries in the UK included Victoria Spinning Co, Cooke, Sons and Co (Hillington), Thistletex Carpets, maker of tufted carpets[4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] History World
  2. Picture Post magazine
  3. [2] History World
  4. The Times Oct. 4, 1968