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Modern Family Business With A Long Tradition For Excellent Service Nineteen years after it was founded, the London & Lancashire Rubber Company’s first official accounts showed nine month’s sales totalling £4,750...and 14 shillings. Although equivalent to 70p today, that 14 shillings represented an average man’s wage for a day’s work. A year later, London & Lancashire Rubber Company - India rubber merchants - was formally registered at Companies House. But the history of the newly limited Company goes back much further than 1920. London & Lancashire Rubber Company - so called because it was founded and operated in London but also wanted links with the industrial heartlands of the North - could provide evidence of years of successful trading. The firm had been founded in the last full year of Queen Victoria’s reign - 1900 - by Justice of the Peace Alfred William Carnol Wheeler who along with his wife Justina, were named the Company’s first directors. A great many things have changed in the more than 100 years since the Company was founded, however one thing has remained constant for the Company throughout the passage of time into it’s second century namely that it is still owned and run by a direct descendant of the founder, his great grandson Andy Wheeler. To read more about the events that have taken place in the Company’s history, click here.