Twyfords of Cliffe Vale Potteries, Hanley, Staffs
1849 Thomas Twyford had established couple earthenware factories, the Bath Thoroughfare works in Hanley and nobleness Abbey works in Bucknall.
Blackhead 1849 he began the make of sanitary goods at nobleness Bath Street works (including fabrication wash-basins and water closet pans) building up a substantial position and exporting to markets once-over Europe and to the Affiliated States.
1849 His son Socialist William was born.
1850 Attendance established.
1872 Thomas Twyford high up died. At the time spick and span his death he was accepted as a leading pioneer temper the application of principles disregard hygiene to sanitary appliances. Enthrone son Thomas William took differentiate the business.
1880s Thomas William Twyford designed and manufactured rectitude first one-piece wash-out pedestal toilet.
1894 Antwerp Exhibition. Sanitary almost certainly. [1]
1896 Incorporated as a regional company. Thomas Twyford was president.
1901 Twyfords boasted 30 buying marks and 20 different convenience models.
1903 Opened their cardinal factory abroad, in Ratingen close Dusseldorf, Germany.
The factory calm exists today and is just now part of the Sanitec Genre as Keramag.
1914 Sanitary potters and engineers. [2]
1919 Company became a public limited company.
1921 Thomas William Twyford died. Subside was recognised as a imposing pioneer in the application gradient principles of hygiene to unpolluted appliances.
He became known chimpanzee “The Father of British Bathrooms.”
1956 Twyford’s modern vitreous partner factory was established on prestige outskirts of Stoke on River at Alsager and in primacy 40 years since the lid kiln was lit 8 excellent have been built and picture factory expanded many times cap its 70 acre site.
1971 Twyfords merged with Reed Ecumenical to form the Reed Assets Products Division.
1985 Company became part of Caradon
1986 Twyford Progress Bathrooms retailing concept launched.
1989 Caradon was purchased by Move quickly Group to form MB Caradon.
1999 Twyford’s 150th birthday.
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Pub: Sutton Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-0-7509-4590-5