NOTICE The subscribers, being the whole partners of the firm of Stewart, R. Stewart, & Company, Comb Manufacturers In Aberdeen, hereby intimate that, by mutual consent, the subscriber, John Stewart, Junior, ceased to be a partner of said firm, as at 31st of December, 1869. JOHN STEWART. GEORGE IRVINE STEWART. JOS. R. STEWART. John W. [...]
Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr Gordon David Former Combworks’ Sales Manager Fifty-four years of continuous service with the Aberdeen Combworks Co., Ltd., is the record of Mr Gordon David of 19 Chestnut Row, Aberdeen, who with Mrs David, celebrated his golden wedding yesterday afternoon in the Caledonian Hotel. A company of forty relatives from all [...]
Old comb works may get facelift A facelift for the former Aberdeen comb works in Hutcheon Street was outlined today to the city planning committee by applicants proposing complete restoration work similar to that carried out at London's Covent Garden. Once completed the refurbished property at 34-40 Hutcheon Street, covering 1.2 acres, would be known [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]