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Avalon Leatherboard Co Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Clark & Hardy
  • Clark, William
  • Clark, C & J, Ltd
  • Avalon Industries Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Street, Somerset, Somerset, South West, England

Sectors:

  • Leather & other skins processing & products manufacture Leather industrial products eg belting, hose, bellows, etc, manufacture

Notes:

Traced origins to 1878 when established as a partnership of Clark & Hardy to make 'artificial leather' using an innovative process. Soon after William Clark, connected with the eponymous footwear making firm, was sole owner. Incorporated 1900 as Avalon Leatherboard Co Ltd. In 1960, when C & J Clark Ltd had a controlling interest, reorganised by them as Avalon Industries Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary

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