Copy Letter: Carless, Capel & Leornad, Hope Chemical works, Hackney Wick

COPY LETTER: Carless, Capel & Leornad, Hope Chemical works, Hackney Wick, N. E. to Mr Hugh Roberts, Market Square, Llanerchymedd re costs and carriage of petrol.

Eugene Carless established his distilling and oil refining business in 1859 at Hackney Wick, on land adjoining White Post Lane. Here he constructed the Hope Chemical Works. In 1860 William George Blagdon joined as a partner, remaining with Carless for ten years. After the dissolution of the partnership Carless became the leading distillery in Britain for the newly imported American crude oil, and made advances in refining coal tar and shales, from which derived benzoline, paraffin oil, burning naphtha and carburine. A brief partnership with George Bligh Capel made in 1870 was dissolved in 1872, and was replaced with a new partnership between Capel and John Hare Leonard, trading as Carless, Capel and Leonard, with Carless as works manager. Leonard became the sole proprietor within eighteen months. In 1989 the Company was taken over and broken up. A new company, Carless Refining and Marketing, was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Repsol at Romford.

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Compiled by Helen Lewis for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

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