Griffin & Tatlock Ltd.
1929 - 1954
The origins of this firm go back to circa 1881, when the company Baird & Tatlock was founded in Glasgow. In 1896, the partnership dissolves, Hugh Harper Baird going to London and John Tatlock staying in Glasgow. In 1903, the London company became Baird & Tatlock (London) Ltd. In 1915, the Glasgow firm also took the name of Baird & Tatlock, Ltd, spurring a big dispute over who had the rights of using that name. The two firms held the same name until 1925, when the Glasgow company merged with John J. Griffin & Sons, Ltd (a London firm of Glasgow origins), and began trading under the name of Griffin & Tatlock Ltd in 1929. In 1954, Griffin & Tatlock merged with W. & J. George & Becker Ltd. and Standley Belcher & Mason Ltd. to form Griffin & George Ltd., which is still in existence today.
Griffin & George Ltd. is now Griffin Education, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. On this company, see "Home," Griffin Education,
http://www.griffin-education.co.uk/ (accessed 10/15/2014)
T. N. Clarke, A. D. Morrison-Low, and A. D. C. Simpson, <i>Brass and Glass: Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland as illustrated by instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland</i> (Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1989), 289-290.