Chance Brothers
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Chance Brothers and Company was an English glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands, in England. It was a leading glass manufacturer and a pioneer of British glassmaking tech
Chance's Glassworks, Spon Lane, Smethwick
Robert Lucas Chance – from a photograph
Portrait of Sir James Timmins Chance, by Joseph Gibbs, 1902 (possibly painted posthumously)
One of the dials of the Great Clock of Westminster, popularly known as Big Ben. (The minute hand is 14 feet (4.3 m) long.)
Pilkington
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Pilkington is a glass-manufacturing company based in Lathom, Lancashire, England. It includes several legal entities in the UK, and is a subsidiary of the Japanese company Nippon Sheet Glass. It was f
Chance Brothers
…with Chance Brothers and stayed in England to collaborate with them for six years. Just three other companies in Britain made glass in the same way, Pilkington of St Helens, Hartleys of Sunderland and Cooksons of Newcastle. During 1832, Chance Brothers became the first company to adopt the cylinder method to…
A factory worker holding a cylinder of sheet glass, 1918
Pilkington Floatglass former factory in Halmstad, Sweden. Closed since 2012.
Pilkington glass in a Mercedes-Benz
A trailer with Pilkington livery