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MESSRS. E. R. WATTS AND SON, LTD., announce that they have acquired the business of Messrs. James Swift and Son, Ltd. The connexion between these two companies dates back over a hundred years, when Mr. Edwin Watts, founder of E. R. Watts and Son, Ltd., and Mr. James Swift, founder of James Swift and Son, Ltd., were both apprenticed at the mathematical instrument-making firm of Swaine's in the Waterloo Road, London. The bond of friendship so formed was maintained between the two families until the untimely deaths of Mr. Mansell James Swift, and his son, Mr. Mansell Powell John Swift, both in October 1942. Messrs. James Swift and Son, Ltd., will continue to trade under their own name, but it is hoped that the production facilities of Messrs. Watts will enable them to play their part in satisfying the need for microscopes in the next few years.
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Announcements. Nature 157, 800 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157800f0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157800f0