Mixed Fortunes This has been a year of mixed fortunes for Aberdeen's comb industry. Foreign import restriction and devaluation are having their effect on the trade of the Combworks. While it is difficult to export to European countries, exports to the United States are increasing, largely due to devaluation. But devaluation has also caused the [...]
GIRL WITH WRITER’S CRAMP. Compensation Case Inquiry An interesting case under the Workmen's Compensation Act, in which the claimant was suffering from writer’s cramp, came before Sheriff Dallas, accompanied by Professor Marnoch, at Aberdeen yesterday. Edith Joss, clerkess, 18 Holland Street, was the claimant and the Aberdeen Combworks Company Ltd., the respondents. Respondents averred that [...]
New comb perfumes hair Aberdeen product meets good demand Aberdeen Combworks Co., Ltd., have put on the market an entirely new type of comb which is a potential dollar-earner. A sizable order has already been received for the comb from Canada – a hard currency area – and enquiries have come in from the West [...]
Aberdeen Combworks Secret. Prying Chemist Fined. Foreign Countries after Process. Mention of efforts by a foreign country and others to secure by hook or by crook the secret processes used by the Aberdeen Combworks Co., Ltd, for treating raw material, was made at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Saturday, when William Barry, chemist, Shelley House, 102 [...]
A meeting of the Scottish Combworks Co., Ltd was held on Saturday forenoon in the Imperial Hotel. Mr George Gordon, timber merchant, occupied the chair, and all the directors were present, including the Birmingham members of the board, Messrs Charles Raineford, jun., and Mr W. T. Brooks. The secretary, Mr J. Stewart Watt, advocate, read [...]