George Taggart and Co.

GEORGE TAGGART and Co., North British Wholesale Cabinet and Upholstery Works, 26 to 60, James Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow.

    The reputation maintained by Glasgow-made furniture for upwards of a century is thoroughly sustained at the present time by this leading and justly celebrated firm. It was founded some twelve years ago by the present partners, Mr. George Taggart and Mr- Andrew Parker, who soon, by their spirited enterprise and great resources, raised it to a leading position in the trade.

    The premises comprise an immense block of five floors, extending from 26 to 60, James Street, and divided into factory and warehouse departments. The factory is finely equipped with the most improved modern appliances, and affords employment to upwards of 200 skilled hands. The first floor is used as a machine shop for preparing the material, sawing, cutting, turning, planing, tenoning, and the like ; the second for cabinet making ; the third for chair manufacture ; the fourth for carving and polishing; and the fifth for upholstering. Division of labour is carried out in all these great departments with the best effect, and with the usual result of making the employees perfect experts in their several crafts.

    The turn-out is of the highest order, and of great dimensions. In the wholesale warehouses adjoining may be seen fine samples of every style of work, reproducing the favourite types of the most noted furniture-making periods after the best modern designs. The production is not confined, however, to the finer descriptions of cabinet work for the opulent, but embraces all kinds of furniture for every day use, down to the ordinary kitchen chair or office stool. Great stores of seasoned woods are maintained in the large yard behind the works, and only the finest and best woods are used in the manufacture. The whole is extremely spacious, commodious in plan and arrangement, and offers an excellent example of a great and thoroughly effective modern establishment.

    The trade connection is exclusively a wholesale one, and embraces most of the leading houses of the United Kingdom. Both proprietors are devoted to the business, and control its operations, both executive and commercial, in a manner worthy of such a large and representative house. The great reputation which the firm have achieved in trade circles is due to their judgment and high ability, which find a congenial field for exercise in directing and controlling the operations of this colossal enterprise.

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