Lambert & Butler is a former English tobacco manufacturing company, established in 1834 in Clerkenwell, Central London, that operated as a private business until 1901 when it merged with other UK manufacturers to form the Imperial Tobacco Company. Apart from tobacco products L&B also released several cigarette card sets from the 1910s to the 1930s. They consisted of various topics including motor cars, locomotives, horsemanship, aviation, and association football.
Vintage Lambert & Butler "Weaver" brand
An old British packet of Lambert & Butler cigarettes, with an English language text warning at the bottom of the pack
Imperial Brands plc is a British multinational tobacco company headquartered in London and Bristol, England. It is the world's fourth-largest international cigarette company measured by market share after Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco and the world's largest producer of fine-cut tobacco and tobacco papers.
Imperial Brands offices in Bristol, April 2014
Imperial Tobacco building in Raleigh Road, Bristol, constructed in 1912
A 2-ounce (57 g) tin for J&F Bell "Three Nuns" tobacco
The former Reemtsma head office in Hamburg, Germany, pictured July 2009