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Edgar Vaughan & Co, Birmingham 4

G

Graye

proper brummie kid
Does anyone have any idea what this company used to make? They joined forces to some extent with E F Houghton in the USA around 1910 and that's the period I'm really interested in.
 
1910 listing is : Vaughan Edgar & Co. Limited, manufacturers, mill & factory furnishers, oil importers, Shadwell works, Corporation street & Legge street & 41 Bagot street
By 1921 the entry was : Vanghan Edgar & Co. Limited, lubricating oils for all industries, also paints, belting & engine packings. Oil depots at London; Liverpool & Manchester; registered offices, Legge street, Birmingham. T A " Compete ; " T N 6,557 Central (Private Branch Exchange)
 
They made specialist oils for industry, they also had the British concession for Cosmoline as used for wrapping guns etc. They specialised in cutting oils for the metal trade and would develope new oils as requested . I worked there for a while in the mid 60's. My boss, the chief chemist always answered the 'phone with "my name is Jones, J.O.N.E.S," how many ways were there to spell it I wondered?
 
They were in Legge St. Aston opposite Midland Counties Dairy. They had a factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, where the cutting oils and fluids were made from oils delivered by boat along the Manchester Ship Canal. They became Houghton Vaughn in the 1980s when they merged with Houghtons from the US. The site in Aston was offices and laboratories, it closed in about 2000, I think its gone and now theres student flats there.
 
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