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Description: | Emanuel's was established in 1840, though the first reference we could find in our directories was in 1862, as George Emanuel Coachbuilders of the High Street, Slough. Between 1891 and 1895 the Company became Emanuel Bros. In 1909, the firm started to claim to be "coach, carriage & motorcar carriage builders" in their adverts.
By 1924, they had supplemented their High Street property with a transport depot in the Wexham Road, and according to the pull-out, the main workshop was moved from the High Street to Wexham Road in 1926.
In 1930 they said that their High Street address was at the rear of 103, but by 1936 they must have closed that branch, as from then on they give their address as Wexham Road only.
The company had a good war, but in 1946 the company was taken over by George Battelley. His daughters still own the company. A newspaper article from the 1990s says the 1946 take-over was the only one in the company's history.
The company has had a colourful recent history. In 1995 a former chief executive was given a suspended eighteen months sentence for stealing parts, office equipment and perverting the course of justice. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Advertisement ; Emanuel Brothers ; George Battelley ; George Emanuel Coachbuilders | Temporal: | start=1920-01-01; end=1930-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copy by Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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