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Bradbury Wilkinson & Co were an English engraver and printer of banknotes, postage stamps and share certificates. In 1856, the original company was started by Henry Bradbury (1831-60). In 1873-74, they built an imposing six-storey workshop, for engraving printing plates, in Holborn, London at 25 and 27 Farringdon Road, which is now a Grade II-listed building. In 1903, the company was acquired by the American Bank Note Company. In 1917, the company moved to New Malden in Surrey still operating as Bradbury-Wilkinson as a wholly owned subsidiary of ABNC. In 1983, Bradbury Wilkinson created a form of polymer banknote using Du Pont's Tyvek material; this was marketed as Bradvek and used to print 1-pound banknotes for the Isle of Man. In 1986 it was acquired by De La Rue. The site is now occupied by the Shannon Corner Tesco supermarket. The last Bradbury-Wilkinson plant was shut down by De La Rue in 1990. ==References== *(BBC factsheet ) *Duggleby, Vincent - ''English Paper Money: Treasury and Bank of England Notes 1694–2002'' (Pam West, 2002) *Byatt, Derrick - ''Promises to Pay: First Three Hundred Years of Bank of England Notes'' (Spink & Son Ltd, 1994) *Mexican philatelic collection () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bradbury Wilkinson and Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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