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]

Pryke & Palmer Ltd.
TypeLimited company
IndustryHardware
Headquarters,
ProductsBiidling supplies; ironware
Advert for mosaic floor tiles, from a circa 1900 catalogue
"Motor Sign Posts" in a 1930 catalogue

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

  1. "Dudley Pryke". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  2. "New illustrated catalogue : November 1st 1894 / Pryke & Palmer [trade catalogue]". Caroline Simpson Library. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  3. "Pryke & Palmer: General Hardware Merchants Catalogue". Potterton Books. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  4. Rayment, Leigh. "List of Baronets". www.leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 18 January 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. General Catalogue No. 330. Pryke & Palmer Ltd. 1930. p. front cover.
  6. "Catalogue of General Hardware". The National Archives. 1920. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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