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Description: | In 1849 George Palmer decided to appoint Henry Lea as his first full-time traveller. Lea gradually started to create a team of salaried full-time travelling salesmen. One of the first men he employed was Charles Williams. Charles came from a Reading family whose coaching firm had been destroyed by competition from the railways. Charles and his brother William Bullivant Williams were both clerks at Huntley & Palmers. Charles became Lea's deputy and in 1890 Chief Representative after Lea's sudden death. The card is written in a characteristically florid mid-Victorian script and style - "Our C Williams will have the pleasure of waiting upon you on or about the 16th when a continuance of your favors will oblige, Yours very respectfully, Huntley & Palmers". | 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 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade advertising | Temporal: | start=1859-08-09; end=1859-08-09; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Charles Williams | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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