James Miller and Son

JAMES MILLER & SON, Cork Manufacturers, 38, Stockwell Street, Glasgow.

    In the manufacture of Corks, and in all its associate branches as a leading and representative industry of Glasgow, there are probably few older or more notable houses than that of Messrs. James Miller and Son, of Stockwell Street.

    This firm has had a long and creditable association with the industry, and has witnessed the greater part of its developments during the past half century, having been founded in 1850 by Mr. James Miller, who continues to take an active and zealous part in the control and direction of its many accumulated interests. They also do a large business in foreign manufactured corks of every description. While making the finer class of corks — suitable for wine merchants — their speciality, they also transact a large general business with brewers, bonded store proprietors, beer and porter bottlers, spirit merchants, aerated water manufacturers, oil refiners, druggists, etc. Bath mats, floats for fishing nets, granulated cork for packing purposes, and numerous other articles made of cork form part of their business. In past years they have exported large quantities of manufactured corks to various foreign ports, and they still continue to do a steady trade with Rangoon, where Messrs. Miller’s productions find a ready market.

    During the course of the past forty years every worthy improvement in the work of cork making has been skilfully engrafted into the firm’s resources, and the two large flats at Stockwell Street will convey to the visitor many impressions of careful guidance and management, alike as regards the manner in which the stores of finished corks are preserved and in respect of the completeness with which the various operations of cutting, sizing, and branding, are carried out. The basement is appropriated more particularly to the purposes of storage, whilst the workshop, counting-house, and private rooms all occupy the first floor, and the whole establishment is a creditable example of compact and thorough organisation.

    Mr. Hugh Miller, son of the proprietor, is entrusted with the general superintendence of the business and fulfils the capacity of manager with every regard for the interests of the house and the requirements of its adherents at home and abroad. In those times of brisk competition Mr. Miller fully recognises the importance of dispatch and promptitude, and to his efforts may be attributed the continued vitality and high repute of an undertaking whose long and influential standing in the trade is the outcome of honourable trading and enterprise. Both father and son are well known in commercial circles, and command the respect and esteem of a firm devoting intelligent tact and the experiences of years to the furtherance of a branch of trade with which few houses are more intimately or creditably identified.

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