Posted 12 months ago
jmillersmugs
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Earthenware manufacturer at Crown Potteryand the Blyth Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
John Tams and William Lowe were two pottery companies who came from a partnership "Tams & Lowe" which split up in 1874.
In 1903 John Tams took his son Edmund into partnership and traded as John Tams & Son.
The business was incorporated in 1912 - trading as John Tams & Son Ltd.
John Tams retired in 1917 and the business continued to be run by Edmund Tams and his two sons Philip & Peter.
From the mid 1960's the business was run by John Tams' great-grandsons Gerald and Peter Tams.
Gerald Tams led a buyout of the business in 1984 and the company was floated on the Stock Exchange in 1988 and became became John Jams Group PLC.
http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/978.htm
