Grant, Somerville, & Co.

GRANT, SOMERVILLE, & Co., Manufacturers of Shirtings, Shirts, Slops, &c., 16, South Frederick Street, Glasgow. Telegraphic address, “Grant, Glasgow”.

    The important manufacturing house of Messrs. Grant, Somerville, & Co. has acquired a position of commercial influence and distinction among the several prosperous concerns engaged in the representation of Glasgow’s textile industries and trade. The firm command the favour of wholesale connections all over the United Kingdom, and from the scope and magnitude of their foreign trade it maybe said that there are few parts of the world to which their operations have not successfully penetrated.

    During the past twenty years Messrs. Grant, Somerville, &. Co. have assiduously devoted themselves to the furtherance and improvement of the branch of work with which their name is so widely identified, and the pursuance of this commendable object has been rewarded by a success that finds daily endorsement in the demand for their goods, the vitality of their business in Londonderry, and the immense accumulations of trade, of which their Glasgow and London houses are the centres. The interests of the business and of its numerous home connections are attended to by a staff of a dozen travellers, and the growing character of the trade is testified in the busy industrial activity of their three factories and the rapid disposal of their aggregate output. The Londonderry works afford employment for some two hundred work hands, while considerably more are necessitated for the requirements of each of their Glasgow and Govan factories.

    The Glasgow factory and warehouse is a lofty six-storey structure embodying all the latest mechanical facilities and a splendid service of steam power, and the whole premises are central and accessible from all points of view, being opposite the General Post Office. In the warehouse alone the firm employ a staff of about 50 hands, and attentive service is thus fully rendered to the requirements of a large home and foreign clientele. Through the medium of the London depot the firm maintain an extensive export trade, principally to Australia, the Cape, and India, while the home trade is capably and energetically provided for, and there are few wholesale houses in which the firm's fabrics are not in constant and imperative requisition.

    The sole partner of the firm and the sole director of its many accumulated interests is Mr. A. B. Grant, a gentleman well known in the City and in social as well as commercial circles. His name is largely associated with volunteering, and, holding commission as Colonel of the 1st Lanarkshire Artillery, he has earned the regard and estimation of his coadjutors for his zealous efforts towards promoting the stability and efficiency of that branch of the local auxiliary forces ; and he has of late been more particularly identified with the new departure of Field Artillery, of which he commands the Glasgow Brigade Division.

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