Plymouth Cordage Company
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Ropemaking firm, Plymouth, Mass. Founded in 1824 by Bourne Spooner. A mill was opened in Welland, Ontario in 1905. In 1938 the firm purchased Consumers Cordage Company of Canada and in 1947 acquired Federal Fibre Mills of New Orleans. The company was merged into Emhart Corporation in 1965 and the cordage manufacturing plant was sold to Columbian Rope Company the same year.
From the description of Records, 1824-1966 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269595341
Established 1824 in Plymouth, Mass.; purchased Consumers Cordage Co., Dartmouth, N.S., 1938; merged into Columbian Rope Company in 1965.
From the description of Records of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824-1957. (Mystic Seaport Museum, G W Blunt White Library). WorldCat record id: 47728098
From the description of Records, 1824-1957. (Mystic Seaport Museum, G W Blunt White Library). WorldCat record id: 70955766
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Subjects:
- Cordage
- Cordage industry
- Hemp
- Industrial relations
- Manufactures
- Rope trade
- Textile industry
- World War, 1914-1918
- Working class
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- Louisiana--New Orleans (as recorded)
- Great Britain (as recorded)
- Massachusetts (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Ontario--Welland (as recorded)
- Yucatán (Mexico : State) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Plymouth (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Plymouth (as recorded)
- Cuba (as recorded)
- Nova Scotia--Dartmouth (as recorded)
- West Duxbury (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Plymouth (as recorded)
- Nova Scotia--Dartmouth (as recorded)
