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Albright and Wilson was founded in 1856 as a United Kingdom manufacturer of potassium chlorate and white phosphorus for the match industry. For much of its first 100 years of existence, phosphorus-derived chemicals formed the majority of its products.
On 29 July 1940, manufacturers Albright and Wilson of Oldbury demonstrated to the Royal Air Force how their white phosphorus could be used to ignite incendiary bombs. The demonstration involved throwing glass bottles containing a mixture of petrol and phosphorus at pieces of wood and into a hut. Upon breaking, the phosphorus was exposed to the ...
Albright and Wilson, manufacturing chemists; Allen & Hanburys, founded in London in 1715 by Quaker Silvanus Bevan and his brother Timothy; grew to be a leading pharmaceutical company with operations in Argentina, Australia, Britain, Canada, China, India and South Africa before being acquired by Glaxo Laboratories in 1958
British company Albright and Wilson was the first company to produce phosphorus sesquisulfide matches commercially. The company developed a safe means of making commercial quantities of phosphorus sesquisulfide in 1899 and started selling it to match manufacturers.
In 1965 A.C.C. became a full subsidiary of Albright and Wilson, including the Barton plant. [146] The fertilizer business of Albright and Wilson was acquired by ICI in 1983, [147] Loss of UK market share caused ICI to close the plant in the late 1980s, as well as other fertilizer production facilities. [42]
Albright and Wilson; Alfred Herbert (company) Alphamosaic; APV plc; Armstrong Whitworth; Associated British Hat Manufacturers; Associated British Oil Engine Company; Automotive Products; Aveling and Porter
Albright and Wilson In 1929, the British Match Corporation set up a jointly-owned company with another Quaker company, The A & W Match Phosphorus Company . It took over that part of Albright and Wilson's Oldbury site which was manufacturing amorphous phosphorus and phosphorus sesquisulfide , as these two chemicals were used in safety matches ...
Albright & Wilson virtually made every commercial phosphorus-based chemical going, they were also into chrome chemicals, detergents, metal finishing, food-hygenic products, match materials. So almost every chemical in that group described in wikipedia under chemistry could have a corresponding paragraph in the A&W article if someone puts it there.