Claim: Before being the The Mander Brothers of today has its origins in businesses developed by the Mander family in the Wolverhampton of the early Industrial Revolution, the firm traded as Mander, Weaver & Co., already as operating one of the largest chemical manufacturing works in the United States where developed businesses in different professions such as baking, japanning and tin-plate working.
Evidence: Mander Brothers has its origins in businesses developed by the Mander family in the Wolverhampton of the early Industrial Revolution, where members of the family first developed trades in the manufacture of chemicals and varnishes to supply the Midland Japan trades and national markets. By 1820, the firm traded as Mander, Weaver & Co., already operating one of the largest chemical manufacturing works in the country, trading from the United States of America to China. In the early industrial revolution, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of Wolverhampton, on the edge of the largest manufacturing conurbation in the British Isles. They developed businesses in baking, japanning and tin-plate working, canals and gas manufacture.