Records of Gray's Carpets Ltd, carpet manufacturers, Newton-on-Ayr, Scotland 1876-1974

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Records of Gray's Carpets Ltd, carpet manufacturers, Newton-on-Ayr, Scotland 1876-1974

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SNAC Resource ID: 6296260

Glasgow University Archive Service

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Gray's Carpets Ltd (carpet manufacturers : 1876-1974 : Newton-on-Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland)

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In 1876 William C. Gray started producing carpets on two hand looms in a little shop in Carrick Street in Ayr. As production grew the company required larger premises and moved to a site in Newton-on-Ayr in 1877. It was on this site that the new factory would be built by the beginning of the 1880s. It appears that production increased in both amount and variety during the 1880s and 1890s. In 1880 Gray developed the Seamless Kidder Carpet. William C. Gray & Sons were producing su...

James Templeton & Co Ltd, 1938-1974, Glasgow, Scotland

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Gray's Carpets Ltd, 1876-1974, Newton-on-Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

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Day, Robin, 1915-2010

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