Doulton & Pinder to operate as Pinder, Bourne & Company

I have authority to state that a partnership has been arranged between Messr. Doulton & Co., of Lambeth, and Mr. T. Stradford Pinder, of Burslem, to take over and carry on under the same name the business of Messrs. Pinder, Bourne & Co. The business in question was first commenced by the present Mr. Pinder's father, and it will be remembered that the gentleman was elected to represent the interests of the North Staffordshire potteries in Brussels and Paris, when the treaties of commerce with this country were being made, and that he was prevented by death from fulfilling a similar engagement at Vienna. The firm earned considerable distinction under the management of the founder, as makers for the foreign and colonial markets, and as ironstone manufacturers for insulators, $c.

Messrs. Pinder, Bourne & Co. have now, upon the almost entire collapse of the foreign and colonial trade, turned their attention to the home markets. The reputation and large connection of Messrs. Doulton will undoubtedly rapidly place the new firm amongst the first of English manufacturers.