Records of Ronald Jack & Co Ltd, carpet and rug manufacturers, Paisley, Scotland

Records relating to the management of the company. Includes:  

• minutes, 1909-1933;
• company registers, 1909-1929;
• financial records, 1835-1933;
• wages records, 1895-1915;
• historical papers, 1867-1939;
• report of Tariff Commission, 1905

This description is part of the main  Stoddard International plc  collection which has been divided into the following sections, each with its own separate description:  

• STOD/DES, Design Archive;
• STOD/200, A F Stoddard & Co Ltd;
• STOD/201, James Templeton & Co Ltd;
• STOD/202, Blackwood, Morton & Sons Ltd;
• STOD/203, Henry Widnell & Stewart Ltd;
• STOD/204, Grays Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/205, John Lyle & Co Ltd;
• STOD/206, Douglas, Reyburn & Co Ltd;
• STOD/207, Bonded Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/208, Caledonian Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/209, Glenvale Carpets;
• STOD/210, Louis de Poortere (England) Ltd;
• STOD/211, Nordale Wools Ltd;
• STOD/212, Paisley Planners Ltd;
• STOD/213, Ronald Jack & Co;
• STOD/214, Scotsway;
• STOD/215, Sekers Group Ltd;
• STOD/216, Stewart Spinners (Galashiels) Ltd;
• STOD/217, Stoddard Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/218, Stoddard Carpets (Ireland) Ltd;
• STOD/219, Stoddard Group Ltd;
• STOD/220, Stoddard International Ltd;
• STOD/221, Stoddard Trustees Ltd.

From c1835, John Ronald & Co were operating as carpet manufacturers at Patrick Bank, Paisley, Renfrewshire. In 1862 the firm became Peter Jack & Co and in 1867 the then partners in the firm, Peter Jack and Hameth Coulthurst, were awarded a patent for improvements in power looms for the weaving of terry and cut-pile fabrics.

Ronald Jack & Co Ltd was incorporated in 1909 to acquire the business of Roland Jack & Co, the successor company of Peter Jack & Co with Peter Jack, the son of the Peter Jack who was a partner in the 1862 firm, as the first chairman. The other directors were John Stewart Muir Jack, Joseph Macleod Lockhead, William Lang and Walter Dick Slater. When Peter died in c1909, John Stewart Muir Jack became chair.

In 1917 the company was approached by Charles Bine Renshaw, chairman of  A F Stoddard & Co Ltd, carpet manufacturers of Elderslie, Renfrewshire, regarding a proposed takeover. Ronald Jack & Co Ltd had already been in talks with  Caledonian Carpets Ltd Caledonian Carpets Ltd of Stirling, Scotland, regarding a possible merger and Renshaw suggested that all three companies merge. In 1918 A F Stoddard & Co Ltd acquired the entire share capital of both companies and they became subsidiaries. In 1933, Ronald Jack & Co Ltd entered into voluntary liquidation.

Arranged chronologically in record series.

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Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999and National Council on Archives, Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

Scotland is the location of all place names in the administrative/biographical history element, unless otherwise stated.

Descriptions compiled by Kimberly Sommerville, Project Archivist (Stoddard-Templeton Corporate Archive), May 2011.