Barlow, Samuel, Coal Carrying Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Transport services Inland navigations carrier services

Notes:

Established 1867 by Samuel Barlow, 1847-94, as a canal carrying business focused on coal. Based at Glascote, Tamworth, from 1870, and from 1919 at Birmingham. Incorporated 1916 as Samuel Barlow (Tamworth) Ltd and known from 1931 as Samuel Barlow Coal Carrying Co Ltd. Expanded by buying up small operators. In decline after 1945 and closed c1962

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