CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #6554 | | | | | | | | | | | Extra info | A S Cairns & Rawson Ltd were beer and cider bottlers, and aerated water manufacturers in Edinburgh, Scotland . Little is known regarding the founders of the company, other than at the beginning of the Alex Cairns & Son 1900s were wholesale wine and spirit merchants operating in Leith, Scotland , and Harry Rawson worked for James Robertson & Co , who were aerated water manufacturers.
In 1944, Alex Cairns & Son became a limited company in order to acquire the business of A S Cairns & Rawson and once in business, they supplied large hotels and restaurants in Edinburgh. They were also responsible for producing St Ronan's lemonade. A year or two after this it appears the company became a subsidiary of James Calder & Co (Brewers) Ltd of Alloa, Scotland . In or around 1956 the company moved its operations to Bankhead Medway, Sighthill, Edinburgh , where James Calder & Co (Brewers) Ltd had opened a new bottling plant. But in 1967 the company went into voluntary liquidation. |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | A. S. Cairns & Rawson Ltd. |
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