Limmer Holdings

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Limmer Holdings
Industry Construction
Founded1881
Defunct1971
FateAcquired
Successor Tarmac
Headquarters London, UK
Key people
Sir William Barnes, (Chairman) [1]

Limmer Holdings was a major contracting business based in London.

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History

The Company was founded circa 1881 as the Limmer & Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company with the objective of undertaking road contracting using high quality asphalt from Limmer in Germany [2] and from the Pitch Lake in Trinidad. [3] The company was based in Carnwarth Road in Fulham and secured major contracts for surfacing the roads of London. [4] The asphalt was imported and the stone came by barge from Scotland. [4] The Company was acquired by Tarmac in 1971. [5]

References

  1. ↑ The Papers of Sir William Gorell Barnes
  2. ↑ Popular Science December 1882
  3. ↑ History of the Company Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine Lake Asphalt of Trinidad and Tobago
  4. 1 2 Sands End Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Notes on Financial Times Actuaries Index 1971
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