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Soap factories have created their often scented products at least since 2800BC. Soap is made form a mixture of salts and fatty acids. Europe Denmark Aggerbeck Blumensaadts N. N. Blumensaats soap factory was established in 1838 England Joseph Crosfield & Sons Joseph Crosfield & Sons was an English soap factory. USA Massachusetts Potter Drug and […]
The Danish box manufacturers strong durable Plyfa boxes have been used for everyday transportation of goods as well as securing equipment on expeditions. The sturdy boxes are made of plywood, with protective metal corners and edges. When ordered in bigger quantities, they often were delivered with the company or department name printed on the sides. […]
Lars Magnus Ericsson started the LM Ericsson telephone factory in 1876. The company started out repairing telegraph equipment and other manufacturers telephones, but already in 1878 Ericsson began producing and selling his own telephone equipment. Ericophon In 1954 Ericsson designed the Ericophon (also colled “The Cobra”) that was produced in millions of examples in a […]
Radio and Television manufacturers have built their products in almost every country. Europe Denmark Bang & Olufsen Bravour Bravour was a Danish radio factory based in Copenhagen England EKCO Eric Kirkham Cole established ECKO Ltd in 1924. Pye Pye LTD was established in 1896
Denmark Aksini Bing & Grøndal Nymølle Royal Copenhagen Palshus Søholm Germany Graf von Henneberg Porzellan Heinrich Porzellan Porzellanfabrik Schönwald
Tobacco has been cultivated and used at least 3000 years, but the industrial revolution, created a great number of tobacco companies, large and small. The oldest evidence of Tobacco plantations have been found in Mexico, and are from before 1000 BC. Denmark C W Obel E. Nobel FDB Cigar- og Tobaksfabrikker N. Tørring Nordisk Tobaks […]
The concept of adding suction to a floorsweeper revolutionised the cleaning appliance industry in the second half of the 1800’s. In the beginning these modern wonders were only available for the wealthy, but as the price gradually dropped, they were adopted into more and more households. In the early 1900’s companies toured the towns with […]
The Rootes Group started as an automobile dealership in Kent, and was founded by William Rootes in 1913, and by 1924 they were the largest car and lorry distributor in the whole United Kingdom. Acquisitions Roots Group acquired a long list of British automotive brands. Hilmann Motor Car Company Limited Rootes bought the majority of […]
Joseph Crosfield & Sons Ltd was established in Warrington, England by Joseph Crosfield in 1814. The factory produced Soap, chemicals and candles. Today the company is a part of Unilever
Deterling Manufacturing Company was established in 1918 in Tipton, Indiana, USA The manufacturing company was lead by Philip A Deterling. In the 1920’s it produced “Talking Machines”, that were mechanical gramophone players, nicely hidden in a wallnut cabinet with space for 78 records. The Talking machines were cranked by hand, unless you could afford the […]
