Below – 03/09/1964 – Aberdeen Press and Journal. Coltness Industries Limited – 1837 to 1964 including the Coltness Brickworks Limited.
Below – 12/12/1966 – Coventry Evening Telegraph – Coltness Brickworks losses.
Below – 03/04/1970 – Newcastle Evening Chronicle – Advert for a general manager.
30/11/1973 – Financial Times – – Pope and Pearson have sent out details of the proposed acquisitions from Coltness Group of Coltness Brickworks (now Caledonian Brick) and Ernest Abram Brickworks) (now Fife Brick). Pope and Pearson are forecasting combined attributable profits before tax for the enlarged group for – the 17 months ending December 31, 1973. of £240.000, including’ In the case of the two acquisitions their results for a six-month period only on this basis, the annualised profits before tax and extraordinary items for the enlarged group would be £280.000. The directors intend to recommend a final dividend of 1.66666p per share gross: this and the interim dividends already paid to make total dividends equivalent to 2.4541 6p per share for the 17 month period. Treasury has indicated that it will consent to final. In a normal financial year and assuming annual profits before tax of £280.000, the directors would expect to recommend dividends of 2.8p net (4p gross). As previously announced, Coltness Group owns 39 per cent, of Pope and Pearson and is obliged to make an unconditional offer to acquire the remaining shares at 320p per share wish and, in addition, has agreed to acquire all the preference shares for 60 p per share cash. These offers will be made on January 2. Coltness Group has informed Pope and Pearson that it intends to retain an interest in not less than 35 per cent, and not more than 49 per cent, of the enlarged Ordinary capital.
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Scottish Brick Corporation. Note the 2 linear lugs below the ‘B’. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking over…
The following head sculptures are believed to have been made from clay by an employee of the Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, sometime during the 1960’s. The heads are 16cm high with the exception of the head with the hat which is 18cm high. They are believed to represent some of the workers at the brickworks. ….
Found by Paul Goodwin in the Castle Douglas area. I am not in possession of this example. Scottish Brick Corporation. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking…
Found by Matt Wilson near Kirkintilloch. I am not in possession of this example. Scottish Brick Corporation. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking over most of…
Ian Suddaby states – Carrick Academy in Maybole, Ayrshire is soon to replaced with a modern community hub, school and leisure centre. The existing school was built from red brick and red sandstone in 1925 and extra accommodation was added in the 1970s. Digging work in the grounds suggests that the 1925 building was made…
The following Scottish bricks were found by Consuelo Bravo Antúnez in the heart of the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Desert was a huge source of sodium nitrate (saltpetre) which was mined on a large scale until the early 1940s. The UK imported many many shiploads of the saltpetre and it appears they supplied many…
This example is in the possession of the National Museum, Scotland. Note the small lug above the ‘C’. The rear has an unusual square-ended frog with a middle bar. Scottish Brick Corporation. Following nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB…
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Stepends Brickworks, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. .
Found by Bob Banks in the Bo’ness area. Barbauchlaw Brick Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .
Found by Marc O’Neill in the Carfin area. This stamp is usually in the form of ‘Stepends’ with the additional ‘S’. Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire
