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Catalogue description RECORDS OF BRITISH XYLONITE LIMITED
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| Reference: | D/B/XYL |
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| Title: | RECORDS OF BRITISH XYLONITE LIMITED |
| Description: |
1/1-34 British Xylonite Company Limited 2/1 Xylonite Company Limited 3/1 Daniel Spill & Company Limited 4/1-2 The Homerton Manufacturing Company Limited 5/1 The Paper Drying Company Limited 6/1 The British Xylomite Company Nürnberg 7/1 The British Xylomite Company Wien 9/1-3 British Xylonite (Canada) Limited 10/1-3 British Xylonite (Australia) Proprietary Limited 11/1-2 Cascelloid Limited 12/1 British Tortelloid Limited |
| Date: | 1869-1960 |
| Held by: | Hackney Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 0.84 m³ |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
DEPOSITED OCTOBER 1978 |
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| Administrative / biographical background: |
Xylonite was the trade name for the celluloid (an early type of plastic) manufactured, first by Daniel Spill & Co. and then by the British Xylonite Co. Daniel Spill had been assistant to Alexander Parkes, the inventor of celluloid. Later Spill set up his own factory in Homerton, manufacturing celluloid under the names Xylonite and Ivoride. In 1877 Spill's business was taken over by the British Xylonite Co. Ltd., This company merged in 1879 with L.P. Merriam's Homerton Manufacturing Co., which occupied adjacent premises, and made articles out of Xylonite. In 1887 a new factory was opened at Brantham, on the Suffolk/Essex border, for the manufacture of Xylonite. Manufacture of goods continued at Homerton until 1897, when the new factory at Hale End, near Walthamstow, was opened. The Homerton works were then sold. The Company also had a collar factory at Holloway. This was transferred to Hale End c. 1901. |
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