John Murray & Son

JOHN MURRAY & SON, Oil Merchants and Drysalters, 14 and 16, College Street, Glasgow.

    The extensive and well-organised business designated above was founded thirty years ago by the senior partner, John Murray, Esq., Provost of Pollockshields, who, some years ago, assumed his son, Mr. Daniel Murray, as partner, under the title standing at the head of this notice.

    The business is that of oil merchants and drysalters a large scale, and confined to customers in the United Kingdom, but mainly to Scotland. The premises comprise a spacious suite of private and business offices, and extensive stores to the rear. Large stocks of oils, soaps, and sundries are kept up, representing the finest goods on the market. Pale seal and whale oils are famous specialities of the establishment, as are also its illuminating refined mineral oils, such as paraffin and petroleum. The stock of soaps is one of the best and most complete that we have seen — some in bulk and some in bars and fancy tablets, embracing every kind made. The sundries of the trade are legion, and we have not space to mention them all here. But certain departments of Messrs. Murray’s stock, such as that devoted to candles, starch, and black lead, are worthy of special mention for their variety and completeness.

    A staff of six travellers attends to the customers of the house, and the general business interests are in the able hands of the partners themselves. During his long control of the business Mr. Murray has proved himself a representative Glasgow business man, and has shown all those qualities of sure judgment and keen enterprise which, for the space of this century at least, have become identified with the commercial character of the northern metropolis. The telegraphic address is “Daniel”, Glasgow, and the telephone No. 3,265.

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