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COOMBS' EUREKA AERATED FLOUR CO., LIMITED,
Lenton Boulevard, NOTTINGHAM; and 8 and 8a Farringdon Road, LONDON.
Telegrams:—"Eureka," Nottingham; "Antidotal," London. Nottingham Telephone No. 141.
Head Offices and Works, Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham.
THE commercial history of Nottingham contains no more noteworthy instance of successful industrial enterprise and rapid trading development than that which is presented in the present-day operations of the important undertaking we name at the head of this notice, and none more entitled to be included in a work descriptive of the various phases of local manufactures. Originally established on a somewhat modest scale in the year 1885, in St. Ann's Well Road, bv Mr. W. A. Coombs, the business has made rapid and continuous progress. The original premises, becoming inadequate to the space requirements of the growing business, were, five years after its inception, transferred to more extensive ones in Stanford Street, and the well-nigh phenomenal growth of the concern may be appreciated when we state that the output during the first year's operations (1885) had multiplied itself two hundred times in these few years, and an output of so many thousand pounds in weight had become millions, and it soon again became necessary to seek extended accommodation. To this end a fresh site was acquired on Lenton Boulevard, one of Nottingham's most charming thoroughfares, where, at the foot of the celebrated Nottingham Castle Rock, shewn in our illustrations, with the canal forming the southern boundary, and in close proximity to both the Midland and Great Northern Companies' stations, were erected the splendid new buildings of which we include a view, and which furnish an outward and visible sign of the Company's well-doing.
Section of Mixing Room.
The main building is of five storeys elevation, surmounted by a sky sign displaying the firm's name, which forms one of the most conspicuous of Nottingham landmarks. The main architectural feature is an effective design in red brick, with white stone dressings. The principal entrance gives admission to a spacious vestibule, with ornamental glass-panelled swing doors, to the right of which is the lofty, light, and well-appointed counting-house, combining every convenience for a numerous clerical staff, while to the left is a suite of private offices for the Managing Director and the heads of administrative departments, and the Company's Board-room.
Section of Packing Room.
Here it may be stated that in the year 1890 the business was converted into a Limited Liability Company under its present style, of which Mr. W. A. Coombs, the founder, became and still remains the Managing Director, having as his colleagues on the Board Mr. Joseph Peck (the Chairman), Mr. J. W. Hodges and Mr. D. Y. Lorimer, all gentlemen of tried commercial ability and possessed of lengthy practical experience in the trade they have so emphatically made their own.
On the occasion of our representative's visit he was courteously received by one of the Directors and escorted over the establishment, first of all donning a long white coat and a white headgear.