Return to Matheson.  In September 1932, Ernest Prentice acted for Hargreaves, Ashmore and Company when the Dublin-based clothing firm was formed into a limited company, with £3000 capital. The company made Norseman weatherproofs using gabardine, a durable twill worsted wool fabric invented by Thomas Burberry in the late 1870s. The company had five directors, […]
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