of 6 Laurence Pountney Hill, London EC.
Ironworks at Tipton, porcelain works at Milton and Hanley, Staffs.
1840 A brother of Redvers Buller founded a pottery in Bovey Tracey
1843 Company established.
1865 The pottery was moved from Bovey Tracey to Hanley, Staffs
1868 Began to make telegraph insulators and went onto specialise in metal components for insulators, including power lines.
1883 Ernest Wentworth Buller and John Thomas Harris formed a partnership as potters, metal works and contractors at Hanley, Birmingham and London[1]
1885 Agreed with Howard Cochrane Jobson to form a new company, Buller, Jobson and Co to acquire the existing one and Jobson Bros which was carrying on a similar line of business.
1890 The company was incorporated at Bullers Ltd
1899 The company was registered as a public company on 10 May, to take over the business of telegraphic engineers, ironfounders etc of a private company of the same name. [2]
1911 Electrical Exhibition. Insulators and lattice steel work masts. [3]
1914 Telegraph engineers, manufacturers of insulators, telegraph fittings, china door furniture, mortars, pestles etc., ironfoundry, metalwork, pottery. [4]
1931 Outline history of the business in [5]
1937 Electro-technical potters and general engineers. [6]
1938-68 Lock furniture manufacturers[7].
1960s Products included enamelled cast iron door knobs and insulator sheds for electrical power lines[8].
NB - this seems to be relevant but not quite sure how it fits in:
Charles Herbert Thompson was trained as a chemist and had many commercial interests in England and France. He formed the Crystaline Company as well as operating the firms of Bullers in Tipton and Thompson L'Hospied and Co near Stourbridge. He also owned an art pottery near to that of Clement Massier at Golfe Juan in the South of France. [9].
A correspondent writes - 'Arthur Tuffley attended Waldron Road School in London up until 1909 and migrated to Australia in 1912. Before leaving England, Arthur worked at Buller & Co Ltd as a goldsmith, manufacturing pearls and precious stone into fine jewellery.'
See Also
- Outline of company history in The Engineer 1931/06/12
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1931/06/12
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Engineer of 13th October 1911 p388
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer 1931/06/12
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ References to plans of Tipton Works in National Archives [1]
- ↑ Rootsweb [2]
- ↑ Invaluable: auction site [3]