Pryke & Palmer
Pryke & Palmer Ltd. was a company of ironmongers and builders' merchants,[1] in the City of London, England. Their illustrated and extensive catalogues (a 1 November 1894 edition in Australia's Caroline Simpson Library has 782 pages[2]) have become sought-after by collectors, with some reproduced in facsimile editions.[3]
 Catalogue cover design, circa 1880 | |
| Limited company | |
| Industry | Hardware |
| Headquarters | Upper Thames Street, London , |
| Products | Biidling supplies; ironware |
In 1925 the company's Chairman, William Robert Pryke (1847-1932), served as Lord Mayor of London and was subsequently created a Baronet.[1][4] His son, Dudley Pryke (1882–1959), later 2nd Baronet, spent his entire life working for the firm, rising to be managing director.[1]
Their catalogues show them as located at 40 & 41, Upper Thames Street, London E.C. 4. They also had premises at Broken Wharf, in the Port of London, nearby. By 1930, they had showrooms on Newman Street/Oxford Street, in central London.[5]
Products
An idea of the vast range of products made or stocked by Pryke & Palmer can be gleaned from their 807-page "Catalogue of General Hardware", circa 1920, held by the Museum of English Rural Life:[6]
- baby carriages and invalid carriages
- barometers
- bathroom accessories
- baths, basins and closet suites
- bell fittings
- bicycles
- blow lamps
- boilers and hot water pipes
- bolts and nails
- braces and drills
- bricklayers', plasterers', slaters' and glaziers' tools
- brushes
- buckets
- builders' accessories
- carpenters' tools
- ceiling centres
- cisterns
- coachbuilders' ironmongery
- coal bunkers
- coal vases
- coffee mills
- coffin furniture
- constructional ironwork
- cramps and vices
- curtain and picture fittings
- door and window furniture
- drain cleaning and testing equipment
- drilling machines
- dustbins
- electric light fittings
- electric wire and motors
- fancy glass
- fire brigade equipment
- firescreens
- floor, wall and fireside tiles
- flour bins
- food choppers
- forges
- fountains
- furniture
- garden accessories
- garden rollers
- garden seats and tables
- gas burners and pendants
- grindstones
- hammers
- hinges
- hobs and grates
- hollow ware
- hooks
- household articles
- iron gates and railings
- kerbs and mantel pieces
- lawn mowers
- leaded lights
- lifting tackle
- locks
- measuring equipment
- metals
- money registers
- morticing, boring and tenoning machines
- nameplates
- nuts
- oil colour and varnish
- paint accessories
- paperhangers' equipment
- picks and shovels
- pipes
- planes
- plumbers' and tinmens' tools
- printing equipment
- pulleys
- pumps
- radiators
- ranges and cooking stoves
- refrigerators
- road lamps
- road making equipment
- safes, strong room doors and cash boxes
- saws
- scissors, cutlery and electroplated articles
- sewing machines
- shop window fittings
- slate, marble, iron and wood chimney pieces
- sliding door gear
- stable fittings and requisites
- steam fittings
- stencilling equipment
- stoves
- taps and cocks
- telephones
- thermometers
- tools
- trunks and cases
- umbrella stands
- ventilators and drain covers
- washing machines
- water pails
- weighing machines
- wheelbarrows
References
- "Dudley Pryke". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- "New illustrated catalogue : November 1st 1894 / Pryke & Palmer [trade catalogue]". Caroline Simpson Library. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- "Pryke & Palmer: General Hardware Merchants Catalogue". Potterton Books. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- Rayment, Leigh. "List of Baronets". www.leighrayment.com. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- General Catalogue No. 330. Pryke & Palmer Ltd. 1930. p. front cover.
- "Catalogue of General Hardware". The National Archives. 1920. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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