MINERAL WATER COMPANIES USING BOTTLES:
BRISTOL, DISTRICT & SOUTH WALES 1888.
From the South Wales Daily
News: Tuesday, 28th Feb. 1888 p1.:
"PUBLIC NOTICE:
The BRISTOL AND
DISTRICT MINERAL WATER BOTTLE EXCHANGE AND TRADE PROTECTION
ASSOCIATION HEREBY GIVE PUBLIC NOTICE that the members do not
Sell or in any way part with their Exclusive and Sole Right to all
Bottles, Syphons, Boxes & Cases bearing their Names or Trade Marks
; and that all persons are cautioned against Selling, Buying, or
Improperly Retaining the same ; and that instructions have been given
to Messrs Clifton, Carter, and Co., their Solicitors, to Institute
Proceedings against any Person or Persons who after this day are found
Selling, Buying, or Improperly Retaining any such Bottles, Syphons,
Boxes, or Cases.
All Persons at present Improperly Holding such
Bottles, Syphons, Boxes, or Cases must at once return them to the
Bottle Exchange Stores, and all information as to the same should be
sent to the Manager there.
The undermentioned Firms are Members of such
Association:-
Barrett's Country Bottling Co.
(Limited), 125-130, Newfoundland Road, Bristol (Owners of
Bottles Bearing the Names or Trade Marks of Bristol
and Bath Aerated Water Co., Limited, Barrett
& Co., Limited, Barrett
& Co., Barrett's
Country Bottling Co., Limited, Bottles bearing Sankey's
Trade Mark - Saw and a Key, and Barrett
and Eler's Trade Mark - a Screw Stopper in a Circle.
Batten and Prudencio,
Ninetree-hill, Bristol.
Beavis, C. E., Cathay,
Bristol.
Boyce and Sons, Meadow-street,
Bristol.
Bristol and South Wales Aerated Water
Co., counterslip, Bristol.
Brooke, Thomas, Capt.
Carey's-lane, Bristol.
Goldsworthy and Co.,
Willway-street, Bristol (owners also of Bottles bearing the Name of J. Cresswell
and Co., Smethwick).
Quick and Co., Lawrence-hill,
Bristol.
Keevell, R., Redcliffe-hill,
Bristol. (Actually Keevill but this is how it was spelt in the
newspaper).
Park-street Mineral Water Co.,
Park-street, Bristol.
Thomas and Co., Baptist Mills,
Bristol.
Curtis and Cross, Ashley Vale,
Bristol.
Reeves, Henry, Clevedon.
Batten, C. W., and Co.,
Brunswick-street, Bristol.
Phelan and Co., Newport.
Vile and Co., Newport.
Heybyrne, Newport.
Davies, E., Newport.
Williams, H. L., Newport and
Cardiff.
Ross & Co. (Limited),
Newport and Cardiff.
Thomas, G. H., Newport and
Cardiff.
Rich and Co., Cardiff.
Cardiff Coffee-house Co.,
Cardiff.
South Wales Aerated Water Co.,
Cardiff.
Elliott and Co. (Limited) and
Elliott, T., Cardiff.
Smart, T. W., and Co.,
Cardiff.
Basker and Co., Cardiff.
Imperial Aerated Water Works
(D. Hopkins), Cardiff.
Hall, G., Pontypool.
Newth, G., Pontypool.
Davis and Sandbrook,
Pontypool.
Peters and Osborne, Nelson.
Hansard, H., Merthyr Tydfil.
Havard Bros., Merthyr Tydfil.
Banfield, R. W., Pontypridd.
Jenkins, W. L., Cowbridge.
McEwen, J. W., Aberdare.
Morris, C., Aberdare.
Bottle Exchange Stores: 118, Jacob-street, Bristol ; Rawden-place,
Cowbridge-road, Cardiff ; Beynon's-lane, back of 35 Cardiff-road,
Newport, Mon. ; 46, Bridge-street, Merthyr Tydfil.
24th February, 1888.
BOTTLE AND MARINE STORE DEALERS IN BRISTOL, CARDIFF, MERTHYR TYDFIL,
NEWPORT, AND DISTRICTS.
As Solicitors to the Bristol and District Mineral
Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Association, we are
instructed to inform you that it is their intention to stop the
illegal trade in Mineral Water Bottles, Syphons, Boxes, or Cases.
Knowing, however, that the Bottle Dealers and
Marine Store Dealers have at present stocks of these bottles, &c.
on hand, the Association have determined to give them the opportunity
of returning them, and have agreed to pay at the rate of 5d per dozen
for bottles (excepting obsolete bottles), and 1d each on boxes
belonging to any member of the Association, on free delivery at the
Stores of the Association, 118, Jacob-street, Bristol ; Rawden Place,
Cowbridge-road, Cardiff ; Beynon's-lane, back of 35 Cardiff-road,
Newport, Mon. ; 46, Bridge-street, Merthyr Tydfil.
This offer will, however, only hold good up to and
including SATURDAY, the 10th day of March, 1888, after which date we
are instructed to take Immediate Legal Proceedings against any Bottle
Dealer, Marine Store Dealer, or other persons (who are not Customers
of Members of the Association) found in possession of any Bottles,
&c., belonging to any Member of the Association, or buying or
dealing in the same.
This offer, however, does not apply to Bottles,
&c., belonging to Bristol Members sent to the Bristol Stores.
CLIFTON, CARTER, & CO.,
51 Broad-street, Bristol.
24th February 1888.
The Stores will be open to receive Bottles, &c., as per above
notice as follows:-
Cardiff, Monday and Tuesday, 27th & 28th
February, and 5th and 6th March 1888.
Merthyr Tydfil, Wednesday and Thursday, 28th
February and 1st, 7th, and 8th March, 1888.
Newport, Friday and Saturday, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, and
10th March, 1888."
Identifying Bottles
In order to identify bottles belonging to
individual members, those members found it useful to have their initials,
or other identification device such as part of the trade mark, embossed on
the base of their bottles to facilitate rapid sorting once empties arrived
back at the depots, upside down in their crates as was usual practice to
prevent star cracking due to marbles rattling on the cobbled streets. Even
paper labels were sometimes affixed to the base of bottles for this
purpose.