Finch, B, & Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Building products distribution inc builders' merchants
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Copper & brass products manufacture inc plumbing fittings

Notes:

Traced origins to 1857 when established by Benjamin Finch in Buckingham Palace Road, London, as sanitary engineers and consultants and suppliers of sanitary equipment. Emerged as a leading business. 1937 merged with S A Clark Ltd of Barkingside and Ilford, builders merchants, as a public company. Thereafter specialised as builders merchants. Also manufactured, especially plumbers' brasswork. By 1950s leading builders merchants with an important manufacturing capability, based at Belvedere Works, Barkingside

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