Company:
Thomas White & Co Ltd
Registration number: 41204
Company name: Thomas White & Co Ltd
Dates in business: 1894-1978
Type of business: drapers and furnishers
Type of company: Private limited liability company
Locations:- Union Street, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
- High Street, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
- Lynchford Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, England
- Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, England
Management of company
The first managing directors were William Trotter Robertson and Henry Harris Gotelee.
Company history
On 22 May 1894, Thomas White & Co was incorporated as a limited liability company, Thomas White & Co Ltd, to carry out the business of military outfitters, camp furnishers, furniture dealers and manufacturers, drapers and furnishing and general warehousemen. The company's registered offices were at 23 Union Street, Aldershot, England. In 1964, these changed to 105 Victoria Street, Westminster, England.
The company received royal warrants as military outfitters and upholsterers to King George V in 1901 and again in 1911. By the 1930s, the company traded from two sites in Aldershot and one, which was largely rebuilt in 1939, at the corner of Lynchford Road and Camp Road in Farnborough, Hampshire, England. In 1961, the company was acquired by Army & Navy Stores Ltd, department store retailers, of London, England. The Farnborough store and the Union Street store in Aldershot were sold, and in 1964, the remaining Aldershot store was extended and modernised. In 1973, Army & Navy Stores Ltd, together with Thomas White & Co Ltd, was acquired by House of Fraser Ltd, department store retailers, of Glasgow, Scotland.
The company ceased to trade in January 1974 and was liquidated in 1978.
Records held for Thomas White & Co Ltd:
Title: Minutes of meetings of board of directors and general meetings of shareholders
Date: 1931-1976
Title: Abstract of title of Henry Harris Gotelee and Robert Loveband to property in Aldershot
Date: 1894
Title: Royal warrants appointing Thomas White & Co Ltd upholsterers and military outfitters at Aldershot
Date: 1901, 1911
Title: Agreement for purchase of business of Thomas White & Co Ltd by Army & Navy Stores Ltd
Date: 1975
Title: Inventory and valuation of fixtures, fittings and furnishings in Farnborough and Aldershot stores
Date: 1957
Title: Notice of sale of Aldershot premises of Thomas White & Co Ltd by Army & Navy Stores Ltd
Date: June 1964
Title: Shields awarded to Thomas White & Co Ltd for decorated shop frontage and window display in Aldershot coronation celebrations
Date: 1953
Title: Photograph of window display for sale in store in Union Street, Aldershot
Date: January 1964
Title: Correspondence and papers on acquisition of Thomas White & Co Ltd by Army & Navy Stores Ltd
Date: 1961
Title: Papers relating to liquidation of dormant subsidiaries of Army & Navy Stores Ltd
Date: 1978-1980
Includes balance sheets of Thomas White & Co Ltd, 1977-1979.
Related People and Companies:
Dates of connection: 1894
Connection type: Thomas White & Co was incorporated as Thomas White & Co Ltd in 1894.
Dates of connection: 1961
Connection type: Army & Navy Stores Ltd acquired Thomas White & Co Ltd in 1961.
Dates of connection: 1973
Connection type: House of Fraser Ltd acquired Thomas White & Co Ltd, as a subsidiary of Army & Navy Stores Ltd, in 1973.
Access points: Drapers - Furnishers - Furniture dealers - Furniture makers - Outfitters - Retail trade - Upholsterers
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