Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    Z1363
  • Title
    Chiltern Printing Works
  • Date free text
    1979
  • Production date
    From: 1979 To: 1979
  • Admin/biog history
    Chiltern Printing Works was started by P.J. Chiltern-Hunt, opening for business on 19 July 1929 in modest premises in West Parade, Dunstable, and over the 50 years covered by the album it developed into a large and significant packaging and coatings firm. The business moved in 1933 to a vacant hat factory in High Street North, Dunstable, and then in 1936 to Clarendon Road, Watford [Hertfordshire]. As a result of military supply contracts in World War II, it acquired premises for production in Ebury Road, Watford; Headstone Lane, Harrow [Middlesex]; and Oldfield Road in Maidenhead [Berkshire] in the early 1940s (by that time the company was called Chiltern Paper Products Limited), and then in c. 1946 consolidated its entire works in a new premises at Belswains Lane, Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead [Hertfordshire], where it continued to grow. P.J. Chiltern-Hunt was also involved in the formation of the Institute of Packaging in 1946 (now named ‘The Packaging Society’ and, since 2005, a division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining). The site of the Chiltern-Hunt factory in Hemel Hempstead was redeveloped as ‘The Willows’ in the 1990s. The Chiltern Hunt Group of Companies in 1979, with dates of their formation: Chiltern Hunt Ltd. (1929); Chiltern Canadian Finance Corp. Ltd. (1954); Beaver Trust Corp. Ltd. (1960); Chiltern Hunt Properties Ltd. (1962); Chiltern Hunt (Australia) Ltd. (1962); Australian Pacific Finance Corp. Ltd. (1962); Chiltern Hunt (N.Z.) Ltd. (1962); Chilworth International Corp. Ltd. (1970); Overseas Cayman Trust Corp. Ltd. (1970); Chiltern Cayman Corp. Ltd. (1970); Commonwealth & Pacific Nominees Ltd. (1977); Atlantic International Finance Corp. Ltd. (1977); Barclay Investment Inc. (1977).
  • Archival history
    The album in this deposit was transferred from Luton Museum in 2008 (and previously held at Watford Museum[?]).
  • Level of description
    fonds
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