James Templeton and Co
James Templeton and Co, of Glasgow.
Carpet Mill.
1839 The business was established in a very small way in Bridgeton. The founder of the firm was the inventor of the first machine-made Axminster carpets - James Templeton had previously been in business in Paisley as a manufacturer of Paisley shawls.
1873 Exhibited Axminster carpets and rugs at the Vienna Exhibition[1]
By 1923 there were 3 000 workpeople.
1947 became a public Limited Company with a great great grandson of James Templeton as Chairman.
1955 One of 5 companies which founded Tufted Carpets Ltd[2] whose products were sold as Kosset Carpets[3]
1961 The company had six carpet factories in Glasgow and two spinning mills, one in Glasgow and one in Stirling. It acquired a 30-acre site at Govanhill for a large new factory.
1968 John Crossley-Carpet Trades Holdings Ltd of Halifax and the Carpet Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kidderminster bought out the interests of their other 2 partners in Tufted Carpets Ltd[4]
1969 Acquired by Guthrie Industries[5]