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10 11, 2014

1930 Making Combs for Eve – A new use for skimmed milk

2024-03-13T19:18:26+00:00November 10th, 2014|Categories: Press Cuttings|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

MAKING COMBS FOR EVE. New Use For Skimmed Milk. WORLD SUPPLIED BY ABERDEEN A long and interesting connection with the Aberdeen Comb Works will come to an end this month with the retirement of Mr John Morrison, 13 Beechgrove Terrace. Mr Morrison has been engaged – mainly on the commercial side - with the Aberdeen [...]

10 11, 2014

1906 Article on “The Making of Combs” in the Worlds Work

2024-03-14T17:24:06+00:00November 10th, 2014|Categories: Press Cuttings|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Reference was made by our London correspondent, in his letter in yesterday;s paper, to an article on ‘The Making of Combs’ by Mr A. I. M’Connochie, in this month’s number of the “World’s Work.”. Dealing more particularly with the Aberdeen Combworks, Mr M’Connochie says - Combmaking was revolutionised about 1828. There are no manufacturers of [...]

10 11, 2014

1899 Planning Approval for New Combworks at Kittybrewster

2024-03-14T17:21:27+00:00November 10th, 2014|Categories: Press Cuttings|Tags: , |0 Comments

Meetings of the Plans and Public Health Committees of Aberdeen Town Council were held yesterday to consider the plans of the proposed new works to be erected near Kittybrewster for the Scottish Combworks Company, Limited. The Public Health Committee unanimously approved the plans, an amendment by Councillor Cooper not to sanction them not finding a [...]

9 11, 2014

1964 Takeover by Daniel Montgomery & Son Ltd

2024-07-22T19:46:29+01:00November 9th, 2014|Categories: Historical Documents, Press Cuttings|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

BREAKTHROUGH Aberdeen is on the brink of breaking into the modern Plastics field and a much greater way than in the past. This has been made possible by the change in control of the city’s well-known Combworks in Hutcheon Street where Daniel Montgomery and Son Ltd., a Glasgow firm with a large plastics division, have [...]

23 10, 2014

1936 Foreign competition causes a loss for that year

2024-04-30T22:05:17+01:00October 23rd, 2014|Categories: Press Cuttings|0 Comments

The 37th Ordinary Annual General Meeting of the Aberdeen Combworks Company Ltd was held yesterday in the registered office of the Company, Hutcheon Street, Aberdeen. Mr David Stewart presided and the other directors present were Colonel Davidson, Major Lyon, Mr Lowie and Mr Barlow. The Secretary having read the Notice convening the meeting and Auditors’ [...]

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