Crossfield and Lever Brothers Persil factory,Warrington Bank Quay,Cheshire,England,UK - panorama
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
H542X8File size:
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8405 x 3392 px | 71.2 x 28.7 cm | 28 x 11.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
30 September 2016Location:
Bank Quay, Warrington, Cheshire, UK WA1More information:
Starting with a small grocery business begun by his father, William Lever and his brother James entered the soap business in 1885 by buying a small soap works in Warrington. The brothers teamed up with a Bolton chemist, William Hough Watson, who became an early business partner. Watson invented the process which resulted in a new soap, using glycerin and vegetable oils such as palm oil, rather than tallow. The resulting soap was a good, free-lathering soap, at first named Honey Soap then later named "Sunlight Soap". Production reached 450 tons per week by 1888. Larger premises were built on marshes at Bromborough Pool on the Wirral Peninsula at what became Port Sunlight. Though the company was named Lever Brothers, William Lever's brother and co-director James never took a major part in running the business. He fell ill in 1895, probably as a result of diabetes, and resigned his directorship two years later