Richardson Bros. & Co., BELFAST, DUBLIN, Image & Found by Michael McGowan.
Found in Ireland, ?mm.
BELFAST, RIC(HARD)SON BROs & Co around // lozenge containing crown / R.B.Co. / B, TRADE MARK on bottom edges, DISSOLVED curved above GUANO curved below
Suppliers of various manures. See Findmypast, RICHARDSON, BROTHERS, AND CO., DrISASIr, DUBLIN, and CORR, ti.e agents in Iraland for Peruvian liovernment Guano. RICHARDSON'S BONE COMPOUND. RICHARDSON'S SUPERPHOSPHATE SPECIAL MANURFS: POTATO MANURE. I GRASS MANURE' FLAX MANURE, GRAIN MANURE. (11 October 1873 - Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail - Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
"In later days of Richardsons, the Belfast fertilizer producers, the parent company was Irish Fertilizer Industries (IFI) who had sites at Arklow, Cork and Belfast. The major shareholders were an Irish nationalised company NET and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). These two organisations were the major shareholders holding 51% and 49% respectively." Christopher, Belfast Forum.
Richardsons Chemical Manure Co. of Belfast was founded in 1855 (The Belfast News Letter, 29/11/1912) and was later acquired by Sir William Joshua Goulding in 1897 and converted into a limited company in that year (Northern Whig, 2/11/1897).
