Graham Building Services
of Glasgow, wholesale and plumbers' merchants
1970 Thomas Tilling acquired Henry Moat and Son, builders merchants[1]
1973 Graham Building Services had nearly 80 branches; Thomas Tilling was the largest builders merchants in the country[2]
By 1974 Graham Building Services Ltd, as a subsidiary of Thomas Tilling, had many subsidiaries:[3]:
- J. D. Beardmore and Co of London
- George Boyd and Co of Glasgow and its subsidiaries
- Clarks Builders Merchants of Reading
- Cobb and Ward of Letchworth
- Louis G. Ford of Eastbourne
- GBS Management Services of Eastbourne
- Thomas Graham and Sons of Glasgow
- Graham-Gardam of Bridlington
- Graham-Gratrix of Huddersfield
- Graham Lewis Bott of Nottingham
- Graham-Moat of Wallsend
- Graham-Rowe of Gloucester
- Gunton and Havers of Norwich
- Lockhart Bennett of Dunstable and its subsidiaries
- Monsell Mitchell of Dublin
- G. O'Doherty and Son of Kilrush
- Tranmer Group of Ware and its subsidiaries