APPENDIX D. 
Firms included in Appendix B as having abandoned Profit-sharing who made arrangements for 
receiving Investments from Employees, and the nature of such Investments. 
N.B.— P.F. in the column as to Nature of Investment means a Pension or Provident Fund. 
Name of Firm. 
Nature of Business and Number 
of Employees at date of 
abandonment of Profit-sharing. 
Nature of 
Investment. 
Duration 
of Scheme. 
Cause of Cessation of 
Profit-sharing. 
Henry Briggs, Son & Co., Ltd. 
Coal mining (1203) ... 
Shares 
1865-75 
Dissatisfaction of employees. 
Greening & Co., Ltd. 
Wire netting, &c., manufacture* 
Shares 
1865-68 
Liquidation. 
South Buckley Coal and Fire Brick 
Coal mining and fire brick making* 
Shares 
1866-? 
Liquidation. 
Co., Ltd. 
Cobden Memorial Mills Co., Ltd. ... 
Cotton manufacture* 
Shares 
1866-87 
Liquidation. 
Wardle, Blythe & Co. 
Pottery manufacture* 
Shares 
1867-? 
Not known. 
Price’s Patent Caudle Co., Ltd. ... 
Candle manufacture (900) 
Shares 
1868-72 
Substitution of shorter hours. 
North of England Industrial Coal 
and Iron Co., Ltd. 
Coal and iron mining and iron smel 
ting.* / 
Shares 
1870-? 
Dissatisfaction of employers with 
results. 
Benjamin Collins ... 
Bookbinding (200) 
Shares (in Capital of 
business). 
1871-77 
Dissatisfaction of employer with 
results. 
Hamilton & Co., Ltd. (previously 
Hamilton & Co.) 
Shirt, collar and underlinen manufac 
ture, dressmaking and millinery (50). 
Deposits (P.F.) and 
Shares (in Capital of 
business). 
1876-91 
Liquidation. 
Wm. Jacks & Co 
Iron merchants (38) 
Deposits 
1880-1907(?) 
Substitution of bonus giving. 
Holmes & Co. 
Coach making (14) ... 
Deposits (P.F.) 
1881-99 
Want of financial success. 
Decorative Co-operators’ Associa 
tion, Ltd. (afterwards D’Oyly & 
House painting and decorating (60-70) 
Shares and Deposits 
(P.F.) 
1883-93 
Liquidation. 
Co., Ltd.) 
Perrott & Perrott, Ltd. 
Packers, elothworkers & finishers, &c. 
(110-120). 
Deposits 
1884-1900 
Dissatisfaction with results and 
apathy of employees. 
* Number of employees not known.