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Allen & Freeman later Carpenter and Allen

1.    37 Baker Street, Small Heath
2.    75/77 Lombard Street

The first reference to Allen & Freeman was found in the 1906 Kelly directory for Birmingham and gave their address as 37 Baker Street, Small Heath, Birmingham. The 1924 Chamber of Commerce section of Kelly records their representative as being J H Allen, both he and the company were also listed in the 1928, and 1930 Chamber of Commerce listing, however there was no listing in the Chamber of Commerce section of the 1934 Kelly, though the company themselves were still listed in the Garden Syringe Manufacturers section.
An advertisement in the Ironmongers Buyers Guide of 1937, page 254, showed them as being at the Everest Works, Lombard Street, Birmingham. The advertisement has a subtitle as Carpenter and Allen Ltd. The link with Carpenter appears to have taken place in 1930 when information from Companies House indicates that Thomas R Carpenter entered into an agreement with Joseph Henry Allen of 75 Lombard Street, Birmingham on 24th March 1930, the new company being named Carpenter and Allen. Later in 1930 a further agreement was made whereby J H Allen sold the business to T R Carpenter, the agreement being dated 6 August 1930. It appears that Mr Allen did not leave the business as he is mentioned in various papers until his retirement during May 1936.
The trading style of Allen and Freeman remained until 28 July 1948 when it officially changed to Carpenter and Allen.
The advertisement shows a number of syringe sprays including the 'ANDEFF' spray syringe and 'The Everest' syringe together with the 'Lombard' a double-action self-supplying spray syringe
References within the Companies House documents show that T R Carpenter stayed with the business until 28 November 1951 when it appears to have been taken over by a company called Warne, Wright & Rowland. Records within documents obtained from Companies House in connection with another spraying machine company indicate that in 1963 the part of Warne Wright & Rowland engaged in the manufacture of sprayers became part of Associated Sprayers Ltd; later to become part of Hozelock. Carpenter & Allen subsequently became part of  Benjamin Priest Group of Companies, though by 1974 was a non-trading company. The Benjamin Priest Group was wound up in March 1986 and Carpenter and Allen ceased to exist on 16 June 1987.

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