Catalogue description KAMELLA LTD

This record is held by Oldham Local Studies & Archives

Details of D-HID
Reference: D-HID
Title: KAMELLA LTD
Date: 1934, 1961-1987
Held by: Oldham Local Studies & Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

This limited company was incorporated on 20th December 1934, No. 295324, to take over the Kamella Woollen Company, Imperial Buildings, Bolton Road, Bradford, Yorks., manufacturers and merchants of children's and adults' wearing apparel. The company was owned by Robert Cook & Co. Ltd.

 

The new company acquired at the same time the benefit of a patent, No. 359, 775, for an invention for improvements in sleeping bags for infants and young children, and the trade mark "Kamella". In 1963 the company purchased the majority shareholding in H.S. & W. Preston Ltd, (q.v. D-HIDA).

 

Highams Ltd purchased the company on 21st October 1970 and moved the business, and its Registered Office, to Wood Nook Mills, Accrington. With other similar companies, it formed part of Highams Clothing Division. In 1984 Highams transferred Proposition 13 Ltd (q.v. D-HIDE) to Kamella, together with its stock-in-trade, for £69,500.

 

The company's directors were changed when Largs Ltd took over Highams plc in April 1983. On 31st August 1987, its Registered Office was moved once more, to Grape Mill, Royton, Oldham.

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