Donald Edward Ltd

[Littlefield]

Does anyone know anything about this company who made sprayers from 1934 to I think the 1950s. Addresses Price Street and Little Edward Street. Sold sprayers under Green Label brand. Plenty of sprayers about mainly syringes and small pneumatic, but nothing much known about the company.

 

[mikejee]

Can find no reference to Price St, but Kellys directories do give the following:

From Kellys directories (date is publication date and probably refers to year before):

1932 - 1939 Donald Edward (Birmingham) Ltd, wire workers, Little Edward St, Bordesley
1940 - 1961 Donald Edward (Birmingham) Ltd, wire workers,188 Edward Road, Balsall Heath
1962 - 1964 Donald Edward (Birmingham) Ltd, horticultural sprayer manufacturers, 188 Edward Road
1965 - Firm
Search not helped by Kellys deciding to list them under "D" up till 1958, and under "E" from 1961

The Edward Road factory is shown with arrow pointing to it on the photo below:

 

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Birmingham Gazette February 1930…

 

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October 1964, Member of Cope Allman Group, move from Edward Road, Balsall Heath to Highlands Road, Shirley, Solihull.

 

[mikejee]

It looks like they started off with very different products;


And were originally looking for a new site in Birmingham in 1957

 

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