Paul & Chapman

PAUL & CHAPMAN, Successors to Robert Fulton & Co., St. Mungo Colour Works, 159, London Street, Glasgow.

    The branch of industry represented by Messrs. Paul & Chapman, as successors to Messrs. Robert Fulton and Co., is one that has always flourished well in Glasgow’s industrial system, and in the joint capacities of Oil Merchants and Colour Manufacturers this firm have acquired a reputation and standing consistent with the manner in which they have contributed to the development of these important departments of Glasgow’s productive activity.

    It is now upwards of thirty years since this business was first established by Messrs. Fulton and McLean, and on the retirement — after ten years of successful trading — of Mr. Robert Fulton, the business was continued under his name until 1888, when the present title was adopted ; Mr. George Chapman being at present the sole partner of the firm. The capacities at the disposal of the firm are evidenced in the large establishment at London Street, where one entire side of the front shop is occupied for office purposes, while the other displays a range of casks, which are replete with various descriptions of oils and colours. The whole practical details are carried out at the rear, where the arrival and dispatch of goods is greatly facilitated by a large entrance gateway, and there are manifested many practical conveniences well adapted to the special industry in which the firm engage.

    Messrs. Paul & Chapman make all kinds of paints, colours, varnishes, and cements, and for the quality and consistency of these maintain a renown among painters, drysalters, and others that is well established and well merited. One of the various special features of the firm’s trade is the preparation of ivory black for making blacking and for colour manufacturers. They send this commodity to all parts of Scotland and England, and are occasionally favoured by such shipping orders as testify to the more extended appreciation in which this product is held among foreign connections. The whole manufactures of the firm bear a standard of excellence that represents their constant and painstaking endeavours to improve the usefulness and reliability of the colours and other preparations for each of the various purposes they are designed to serve ; and of the whole collection emanating from the St. Mungo Colour Works, it may be said that it exemplifies assortments of specialities the individual merits of which need scarcely be particularised, considering the long and unassailed repute of the house in its own particular lines.

    The entire details of the business and all the operations of its active and busy routine are under the immediate control of the principal, who provides for its patrons with the attentiveness and promptitude necessary to sustain the enviable name that the firm have earned in this respect. Communication with the Telephone Exchange tends to accelerate the commercial operations of the house, and, from all points of view, this compact and well-regulated undertaking justifies its claim to the highly appropriate title under which, as the St. Mungo Colour Works, it has been rendered one of the most successful and representative of its kind in Glasgow’s well-developed centres of trade and commerce. Telephone No. 1141.

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