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02-03-10, 04:16 PM
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Calico Printers Assoc and Cepea Printers
Question for British cloth collectors. Calico Printers Assoc was a group of companies using printing methods to produce cloth titles and patches. Was Cepea Printers one of the Calico companies?
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02-03-10, 07:30 PM
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Calico Printers Assco
Bill,
In all of the WO documents I've read in the PRO at Kew I've never seen anyone referred to except Callico Printers Association. They no longer operate so I cannot get to ask them who comprised the association. One day I'll try getting into other records, such as those for labour, textile industries etc, and see what turns up. Regards, Stephen.
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02-03-10, 07:53 PM
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Hello Stephen, Thanks for your observations. From what I have found out about Calico, it at one point in time was a "conglomerate" of over 100 textile printers. Cepea is listed as a supplier on an inventory record dated 1943. It is only mentioned once that I can see, and I suspect that it may be a Calico company.
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05-03-10, 11:55 PM
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Is this a possibility??
Some form filling clerk is told the supplier is C.P.A. (ie Calico Printers Assoc) He or she mis-interprets this as a name rather than three initials. Enterprising clerk takes a reasonable stab at phonetic spelling & voila ...Cepea (& seventy years later an unsolvable mystery!)
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06-03-10, 12:27 AM
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Good deductive reasoning Doug. However, the inventory record actually reads CEPEA Fabrics, not CPA. Calico was Calico Printers Association, much like General Motors. It had a virtual monopoly on printed fabrics during the Second World War.
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Res ipsa loquitur Last edited by Bill A; 06-03-10 at 12:33 AM.
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02-05-10, 10:37 PM
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Calico Printers
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46 printing firms formed the association, 32 in England & 14 in Scotland, controlled 85% of the printing, 83 printing machines. First Chairman was F.F. Grafton who was associated with Broad Oak Print Works Accrington. First offices were in Charlotte St, Manchester, they then moved to Mosley St. Retlaw.
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Its to be hoped that there is intelligent life on other planets, because there's sod all on this one. Nephew of Walter Holmes. Last of the original Accrington Pals to be killed in action 29-09-1918 1730 hrs.
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