Locations:

Invoice to Colivet Frerers 1910 Builders' Compendium ad 1914 Architect's Standard Catalogue 1936-38

• Bridge House (Next Blackfriars Bridge), 181 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.4
• 272 Attercliffe Road, Sheffield
• Cattle Market Road, Temple Meads, Bristol
• 4 Oxford Place, Leeds
• Works: Hayes, Middlesex; Rawcliffe, Yorkshire
• Telegrams "Kinovique, Cent, London"
• Telephone CENTRAL 773 and CITY 2218 (1914)
• Telephone Central 5886

Timeline:

• 1899 Founded
• 1914 (builders' catalogue)
• 1929 (Nottingham Council House)
• 1934 (Laxton's & Lockwood's)
• 1973 Acquired by Luxcrete

Products:

• "Ferro-Glass" construction for Pavement, Stallboard, Floor and Roof Lights, &c.
• "Glas-crete" patent construction for Pavement, Floor, Roof and Lantern Lights.
• "King" registered non-sip tiles prevent slipping
• "Cristol-Glass" registered construction for ceilings, domes, skylights, windows, &c., made up of figured glass and deep relief molded glass units in white and different colours, assembled in special strong copper sections and treated by electrolytic process.
• Also: "King" Centreless Floors, Partitions, Pumice Concrete Blocks, Plaster Slabs, Hollow Tiles, Clinker Concrete Blocks, and Fibrous Plaster Ceiling Slabs.

Paper:

• 1914 ad in a builders' compendium
• J. A. King in 1936-38 Architect's Standard Catalogue
• Laxton's

GLAS-CRETE Reinforced Concrete and Glass Constructions J. A. King & Company Ltd London GB, 1938, 36p JPG ~36MB: tar zip pdf PNG ~342MB: tar zip pdf Donated to Rakow

Notes:

• "A list of contractors involved in the various types of work done in connection with the building of the [Nottingham] Council House (New Exchange) opened May 22, 1929" ... "Specialists in reinforced concrete and glass construction, providing "Ferro-Glass" for pavements, floor, roof and storeboard [sic] lights, "Glass-crete", reinforced concrete and glass for lantern lights and roof lights; All glass soffit. No iron exposed to rust or paint." --Nottingham City Council Online