Report - W Canning and Company, Birmingham - June 2013

[Derelict-UK]

History from Yorrick...

W Canning and Company mop and brush factory

and finally from Grace's guide -

1785 Company founded.

1896/7 Directory: Advertiser.

1914 Manufacturers of complete equipments for electroplating and polishing. Specialities: polishing lathes, mops, buffs, compositions, lacquer and circular brushes. Employees 350.

1920 Public company.

1927 Stand No' 257 at the 1927 Motor Cycle and Cycle Show at Olympia

1937 British Industries Fair Adverts for Equipment for Electro-Plating and Metal Finishing. Polishing Equipment, dynamos, Motor Generators, Resistances, Polishing and Plating Barrels, Polishing Motors, Lathes, Automatic Plating, Polishing Equipments, Chrome, Nickel, Cadmium Vats, Mops, Compo Wire Wheels, Brushes, Lacquers. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. Cb.317).

1937 Electro-plating engineers and chemists.

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers

1956 Patent - Apparatus for supporting work-pieces during electroplating.

1961 Manufacturers of plant, materials and chemicals for the plating, polishing and finishing of metals. Products include motor generators, dynamos, control gear for plating and polishing plant, electro-plating chemicals, nickel anodes and salts, lacquers, acids, drysalters and polishing mops and brushes. 2,000 employees.

1967 Patent - Jigs for Supporting Workpieces in Treatment Baths.

1998 W. Canning taken over by MacDermid Incorporated

All the time wondering what was behind the boarding.

Not much really, but as demolition signs have been posted up, I thought I best get on with photographing the insides!

Didn't stay too long as I had other things to do and there is only so much of an empty building that can keep you interested.

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