Chatwood

Chatwood: Samuel Chatwood, an industrialist greatly influenced by the ideas of Robert Owen and the co-operative movement strong in the mid 1800’s, began making safes in the late 1850’s at a factory in Bolton and subsequently moved to Shrewsbury (in 1926). Although control of the company passed to Hall and Pickles, the steel merchants, the Chatwood name survived until 1956. Chatwood claimed he was not merely another lock and safe maker, but a bankers’ engineer; consequently his company never produced domestic locks at all. In 1956, the formation of the Hall Engineering Group brought about the amalgamation of Chatwood and Milner (as Chatwood-Milner Ltd.) operating until 1958 when the company became a member of the Chubb group of companies.

Chatwood's Patent Safe and Lock Co, of the Lancashire Safe and Lock Works of Bolton.

of 120 Cannon Street, London.

1861 Dissolution of the Partnership between Samuel Chatwood and William Dawes, as Manufacturers of Iron Safes, Locks, and Sewing Machines, at Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, under the firm of Chatwood and Dawes. Samuel Chatwood, carried on the firm on his own account.^[1]

1864 The company was registered. ^[2]

1878 Two Gold Medals - Paris Exhibition 1878.^[3]

1880 Special First Award- Sidney.^[4]

1881 Three First Awards - Melbourne.^[5]

1909 Chatwood's Patent Safe and Lock Co was wound up and replaced by another company Chatwood Safe Co Ltd^[6]