James Macintyre & Co Ltd

1854 - 1966

Macintyre (& Co) (Ltd)
Burslem

China and Earthenware manufacturer at the Washington Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

Throughout the history of the Washington Works the main output of was industrial ware and architectural fittings. In the directories Macintyre are variously listed as manufacturers of "china, porcelain, mortice-lock and bell lever furniture, finger-plates, shutter, draw, and hall-door knobs, mortars & pestles, metal covered jugs, letters for signs, garden labels, artists' palettes, slabs, colour tiles, &c".

Also produced were "Electrical Porcelains for lighting, power, telegraph and telephone work, heating and cooking apparatus"

c.1894 MacIntyre produced a series of art ware designs by Wildig under the name "Washington Faience"

This was followed by the "Gesso Faience" line developed by Harry Barnard who had come to Macintyre from Doulton's and left them in 1897 for Wedgwood.

William Moorcroft's earliest pieces at Macintyre were the Aurelian Ware transfer pieces that eventually evolved into the 1902 Florian Ware designs.

James Macintyre was previously in business with his brother-in-law William Sadler Kennedy at the Washington Works, in March 1854 the partnership was dissolved when Kennedy left the business and Macintyre continued the works on his own.

Around 1865 Macintyre took his Commercial Manager, Mr. Thomas Hulme, and his son-in-law, Mr. William Woodall into partnership with him.

James Macintyre died in December 1868 leaving Thomas Hulme and William Woodall as the remaining partners.

The partnership was dissolved on the 31st December 1878 when Hulme left the business. William Woodall continued - the name James Macintyre and Company was retained for the business. ... show more

Macintyre (& Co) (Ltd)
Burslem

China and Earthenware manufacturer at the Washington Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

Throughout the history of the Washington Works the main output of was industrial ware and architectural fittings. In the directories Macintyre are variously listed as manufacturers of "china, porcelain, mortice-lock and bell lever furniture, finger-plates, shutter, draw, and hall-door knobs, mortars & pestles, metal covered jugs, letters for signs, garden labels, artists' palettes, slabs, colour tiles, &c".

Also produced were "Electrical Porcelains for lighting, power, telegraph and telephone work, heating and cooking apparatus"

c.1894 MacIntyre produced a series of art ware designs by Wildig under the name "Washington Faience"

This was followed by the "Gesso Faience" line developed by Harry Barnard who had come to Macintyre from Doulton's and left them in 1897 for Wedgwood.

William Moorcroft's earliest pieces at Macintyre were the Aurelian Ware transfer pieces that eventually evolved into the 1902 Florian Ware designs.

James Macintyre was previously in business with his brother-in-law William Sadler Kennedy at the Washington Works, in March 1854 the partnership was dissolved when Kennedy left the business and Macintyre continued the works on his own.

Around 1865 Macintyre took his Commercial Manager, Mr. Thomas Hulme, and his son-in-law, Mr. William Woodall into partnership with him.

James Macintyre died in December 1868 leaving Thomas Hulme and William Woodall as the remaining partners.

The partnership was dissolved on the 31st December 1878 when Hulme left the business. William Woodall continued - the name James Macintyre and Company was retained for the business.

Around 1894 the business was incorporated as a Limited Company.

c.1894 MacIntyre produced a series of designs by Wildig under the name "Washington Faience" This was followed by the "Gesso Faience" line developed by Harry Barnard who had come to Macintyre from Doulton's and left them in 1897 for Wedgwood.

In 1897 Macintyre & Co. Ltd employed the 26 year old William Moorcroft as a designer, and within a year he was put in full charge of the company's art pottery studio as Chief Designer.

In 1913 William Moorcroft left Macintyre & Co. and set up his own manufacturing company in Sandbach Road, Cobridge, Burslem.

From 1928 only industrial porcelain, primarily for electrical insulation, was produced.

In 1966 Macintyre was merged with T. Arrowsmith and Sons - Macintyre "producers of high and low-tension electrical porcelain" continued to trade under their own name. At that time Macintyre were recorded as having 350 workers.

Previously: W S Kennedy & Co

Taken from A-Z of Stoke on Trent Potters